A notable entry in the October update to the OED is the term ‘fake news’.
Although it was popularized in 2016 during the US presidential election campaign, did you know that 'fake news' can be dated back to 1890?
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In addition to URL shares, we are looking for additional Facebook data sets that will be useful in studying the effect of social media on elections and democracy
We are developing the peer review process to review applications to the URLs light dataset posted on https://t.co/TlkEQMzQhu, stay tuned for updates and please contact us here or at [email protected] if you want to apply
We at Social Science One are excited to share the news of a major new industry-academic collaboration between Microsoft, our co-chair Gary King and Harvard’s IQSS on an Open Data Differential Privacy Platform. See our blog post here: https://t.co/HbVjv2T3FB
We are committed to data being available for interpretation and replication purposes when possible. We are posting all our codebooks on Dataverse from @dataverseorg, and will post data there as privacy and security allow. https://t.co/3mvlPvUWkv
Social Science One is planning to partner with many survey organizations to connect survey data with Facebook information (with respondents’ consent, of course). This will enable researchers to connect online interactions with voting behavior, and unlock new areas of study.
One of the key challenges in building this new kind of survey is making sure respondents can give informed consent, understanding why we want to access their Facebook data and what we can and cannot do. To this end, we are working hard on the exact wording of the surveys.
Social Science One, in partnership with Innocent Chiluwa of Covenant University, is conducting pilot tests of our Facebook-integrated surveys in Nigeria.
In addition to offering access to the CrowdTangle API, Social Science One is also offering support to help researchers maximize the research benefit of the tool.
The CrowdTangle API offers access to information on the most popular public pages on Facebook, and detailed information on their content, including what performs well and badly - a potential gold mine for analyzing social media content