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Computational economics is an interdisciplinary research discipline that combines methods in computational science and economics to solve complex economic problems. [1] This subject encompasses computational modeling of economic systems. Some of these areas are unique, while others established areas of economics by allowing robust data ...
Abstract. Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories ("fake news"), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing data, archives of fact-checking websites, and ...
- Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow
- 2017
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Hunt Allcott & Matthew Gentzkow, 2017. "Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol 31 (2), pages 211-236. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy ...
- Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow
- 2017
The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [2] [23] Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama won in 2012 switched to Trump (Electoral College votes in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and Maine ...
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Apr 11, 2018 · Indeed, there are enough of such news bots that journalism scholars have begun typologizing them (Lokot & Diakopoulos, Citation 2016). In the 2016 US election, highly automated accounts were used to spread politically motivated rumors, share junk news, and provide US voters with direct links to political news and information from Russian ...
- Philip N. Howard, Samuel Woolley, Ryan Calo
- 2018
Supporters of Donald Trump and opponents of Hillary Clinton conducted an Internet campaign between June 2015 and November 2016 in an effort to sway the election. During this time period, users of social media, especially Reddit and 4chan, conducted numerous "operations" to sway public opinion using Internet memes, Internet posts and online media.
Following the 2016 election, a specific concern has been the effect of false stories—“fake news,” as it has been dubbed—circulated on social media. Recent evidence shows that: 1) 62 percent of US adults get news on social media (Gottfried and Shearer 2016); 2) the most popular fake news stories were more widely shared
