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Articles tagged 2016 election (25)

Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

Joshua BentonJuly 28, 2020

This is how FiveThirtyEight is trying to build the right amount of uncertainty into its 2020 election data analysis

Our analysis finds a 99 percent chance someone will still complain about it.

Paul ResnickNovember 5, 2018

Unlike in 2016, there was no spike in misinformation this election cycle

The “Iffy Quotient” has been downright steady leading up to tomorrow’s midterm elections, and Facebook deserves some credit for it.

Joshua BentonOctober 5, 2018

Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)

About 13 percent of Americans don’t trust any news outlet at all. (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)

Matthew HindmanMarch 30, 2018

This is how Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked — according to the person who built it

The method was similar to the one Netflix uses to recommend movies — no crystal ball, but good enough to make an effective political tool.

Shan WangMarch 2, 2018

If your job requires you stay informed about Russia, Meduza wants to get you the right stories in English

The English edition of the three-year-old Russian news site now gets an average of 100,000 monthly unique visitors and can count among its readers everyone from European policymakers to members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Shan WangNovember 2, 2017

Facebook, Google, and Twitter faced Congress this week to talk Russian meddling. Here’s what we learned (and didn’t)

“Your actions need to catch up to your responsibilities.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 13, 2017

Analiza źródeł on-line to wyzwanie dla każdego. Być może znaleziono rozwiązanie

Facebook naprawia błąd w oprogramowaniu (naprawdę!), oznaczanie fake newsów przynosi rezultaty, a politycy podejmą kampanię przeciwko Rosji.

“The center-right…is the least represented portion of the media spectrum”

Heidi TworekMay 15, 2017

Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses

“Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of ‘the masses.'”

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