It's not just bots you have to worry about. “A new preprint reports that in nearly one-third of studies on social med...
It's not just bots you have to worry about. “A new preprint reports that in nearly one-third of studies on social media appearing in major interdisciplinary journals, the authors have ties to industry that should be disclosed but aren’t. Some received funding from a social media company, others previously co-authored work with industry employees. These ties may be skewing the research, the authors say. The industry-linked studies appear more likely to focus on topics such as why individuals share misinformation than on the role of the platforms and their algorithms.