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IDE researchers publish their findings and work in highly respected academic journals.

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A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

Sep, 2022

Sinan Aral | Director

Research Papers Free Speech, Platforms & The Fake News Problem

Dec 2021

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Research Papers Birds of a Feather Don’t Fact-check Each Other

Dec 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Jennifer Allen | MIT Sloan and MIT IDE

Cameron Martel

Research Papers Algorithmic Transparency and Assessing Effects of Algorithmic Ranking

Dec 2021

Dean Eckles | Social Networks & Digital Experimentation Research Group Lead

Research Papers Digital Literacy is Associated with More Discerning Accuracy Judgments, but not Sharing Intentions

Dec 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Nathaniel Sirlin

Ziv Epstein

Antonio A. Arechar

Research Papers The (minimal) Persuasive Advantage of Political Video over Text

Nov 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Chloe Wittenberg

Ben M. Tappin

Adam J. Berinsky

Research Papers ‘In Situ’ Data Rights: Improving on data portability

Nov 2021

Geoff Parker | Visiting Scholar

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Georgios Petropoulos | Research Associate

Bertin Martens

Research Papers A Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election

Nov 2021

Dean Eckles | Social Networks & Digital Experimentation Research Group Lead

Maurice Jakesch

Kiran Garimella

Mor Naaman

Research Papers Accuracy Prompts are a Replicable and Generalizable Approach for Reducing the Spread of Misinformation

Oct 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

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