Auto-renew subscriptions don’t build loyal customers

Automatic subscription renewals may boost subscribers in the short term, but it's a bad strategy over time, a working paper finds.

Stanford • futurity
March 22, 2023 ~7 min

AI can reveal hidden bias in news media

AI that compares what news media actually reported to what could have been reported can identify biases we might otherwise miss.

Shirley Cardenas-McGill • futurity
Dec. 8, 2022 ~4 min


Holiday-suicide myth just won’t go away

It's one again time to banish the holiday-suicide myth, which continues to show up in the news.

Michael Rozansky-Penn • futurity
Dec. 5, 2022 ~9 min

More likes up the chance people believe fake news

New research digs into how the social part of social media can affect what people think about fake news stories.

Shelly Leachman-UCSB • futurity
Dec. 1, 2022 ~7 min

What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls

If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.

Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University • conversation
Nov. 18, 2022 ~8 min

How maths can help the BBC with impartial reporting

The disinformation age is changing what it means to produce fair or balanced reporting.

Dorje C Brody, Professor of Mathematics, University of Surrey • conversation
Nov. 9, 2022 ~7 min

Experts: Don’t skip colonoscopy due to that study in the news

If you saw news coverage of a study suggesting limited benefit to colonoscopies, consider this message from experts.

Leslie Orr-Rochester • futurity
Oct. 14, 2022 ~5 min

The internet is teeming with bad spider info

Spider misinformation is all over social media and the internet in general, say researchers. The right expert can improve things.

Frederique Mazerolle-McGill • futurity
Sept. 2, 2022 ~5 min


Sharing news you didn’t read can feel like expertise

Social media sharers believe that they are knowledgeable about the content they share, even if they have not read it or have only glanced at a headline.

UT Austin • futurity
Aug. 31, 2022 ~6 min

Americans tend not to know about AI in journalism

Today, AI machines designed to perform the communicator role are generating journalism independent of humans.

Sara Diedrich-Iowa • futurity
Aug. 4, 2022 ~6 min

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