Duncan Watts (University of Pennsylvania): “Fake News, Echo Chambers, and Algorithms: A Data Science Perspective”
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, PhiladelphiaAbstract: American democracy has been undermined by an “infodemic” of fake news, coupled with the widespread segregation of consumers into ideologically homogenous echo chambers by inscrutable algorithms deployed by rapacious […]