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MC Weekly Update 7/31: It's Complicated
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Alex and Evelyn discuss some of the week's headlines, including Ex-Twitter's continued trust and safety, er, best practices and a baseless threat to try shutdown research it doesn't like, before being joined by Josh Tucker and Jen Pan, two academics part of a research partnership with Meta to examine the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviors during the US 2020 election. The group released the first four papers this week and Josh and Jen discussed their findings and what they mean for platform design.
Released:
Aug 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (75)
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