Myojung Chung

Sep 4, 2024 | niemanlab.org | Myojung Chung

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across 40 countries encountering false or misleading information weekly, it’s clear that we’re facing a crisis of misinformation on a global scale. At the heart of this issue lies social media algorithms — those mysterious computational formulas that determine what content appears on our feeds.

Aug 28, 2024 | misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu | Myojung Chung |John Wihbey

Peer Reviewed Article Metrics While understanding how social media algorithms operate is essential to protect oneself from misinformation, such understanding is often unevenly distributed. This study explores the algorithmic knowledge gap both within and between countries, using national surveys in the United States (N = 1,415), the United Kingdom (N = 1,435), South Korea (N = 1,798), and Mexico (N = 784).