Exposing Demographic Biases of News Publishers and Promoters on Social Media

Overview Publications Software People

Overview

Online social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have emerged as popular destinations for users to receive, share, and discuss news about the world around them. A recent survey by Pew Research Center shows that 62% of U.S. adults consume news primarily from social media. The news stories disseminated over social media can have a considerable impact on shaping people's opinions and influencing their choices, including the potential to sway the outcome of political elections. While the impact of social media is going to increase further, currently there is no way for the readers to know what kind of biases the news propagated on social media carry. Our work tries to address this issue by understanding, quantifying and exposing such biases in the news ecosystem on social media.

Publications

• Who Makes Trends? Understanding Demographic Biases in Crowdsourced Recommendations
  by Abhijnan Chakraborty, Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna P. Gummadi
  Proceedings of the 11th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Montreal, Canada, May 2017.
  

Software

• Who Makes Trends? Discover the Demographics of Twitter Trend Promoters
  Web application where users can see the demographic biases of the promoters and adopters of different topics declared trending by Twitter.


• News Media Bias Monitor - Discover the Demographic Biases of News and Media Outlets
  Web application where users can check the demographic biases of different news outlets on Facebook.

People

Faculty		Student
Krishna P. Gummadi Niloy Ganguly		Abhijnan Chakraborty

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