Team debunks research showing Facebook’s news-feed algorithm curbs election misinformation

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published work in the journal Science calling into question the conclusions of a widely reported study—published in Science in 2023—finding the social platform’s algorithms successfully filtered out untrustworthy news surrounding the 2020 election and were not major drivers of misinformation.

This article was originally published here

LawyersLookup.ca - Find a lawyer who speaks your language