Algorithms, News Bubbles & Social Media: Finding Real News in the Media Disinformation Age

The Long Island Media Task Force panel covers how algorithms track our online activities and decide what we will be exposed to and what will be kept from us in both ads and news content. Looking at Google research and how it differs from traditional library research, the taskforce examines how Facebook decides what comments you see online and which you don’t and  demonstrates, through an exclusive experiment they ran, how Twitter alters what two people might receive on their news feeds, even when they subscribe to the exact same news services. The presentation concludes with a series of recommendations about how participants can regain control over the kinds of information that reaches them through social media, and how to evaluate whether news is real or fake. Please register.