The 1973 book is a dystopian fantasy about an invasion of France and the white Western world by dark-skinned and non-Christian refugees. It laid the foundation for the antisemitic and anti-immigrant ...

A new report released today by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has uncovered troubling evidence that Instagram’s recommendation algorithm can rapidly ...

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A new study suggests YouTube’s recommendation algorithm may be shaping political perspectives differently for men and women – even when both groups start with the same interest in political content.

Abstract: The advent of information distribution mechanism constituted by self-exploration, network neighbors, and especially algorithms, has aroused widespread concerns about the reinforcement of ...

Concerns about authoritarian politics and extremist movements are growing as populist rhetoric, online radicalization, and political polarization continue spreading worldwide. Debates around fascism ...

Online communities can turn into echo chambers even without influence from algorithms and even when their members aren't deliberately chasing a space where everyone agrees with them, according to ...

How are ordinary people drawn into extremist circles—and what role can artificial intelligence play in that process? This question is addressed by a new study which, for the first time, combines ...

A new study of online communities suggests that their interaction dynamics can amplify small, local imbalances in opinions, rapidly turning initially mixed-opinion communities into highly-polarized ...