Lazer Lab

Social media platforms rarely provide data to misinformation researchers. This is problematic as platforms play a major role in the...

One of the most concerning notions for science communicators, fact-checkers, and advocates of truth, is the backfire effect; this is when a...

Agent-based models present an ideal tool for interrogating the dynamics of communication and exchange. Such models allow individual aspects of...

Research at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences has provided critical new insights into social behavior. At the same time...

The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's own health condition. However, given the large amount of...

Using both survey- and platform-based measures of support, we study how polarization manifests for 4,313 of President Donald Trump’s tweets since...

Individuals acquire increasingly more of their political information from social media, and ever more of that online time is spent in...

The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to...