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    1. Americans’ current experiences with automation and other workforce technologies

    The bulk of this report is focused on the coming wave of workforce automation and other automation technologies. But a variety of technological innovations – from industrial robots in manufacturing to the office productivity tools that have transformed the nature of white collar office work – have already had a profound impact on the nature […]

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    Methodology

    CORRECTION (April 2018): In the table called “Random effects analysis of bot shares by content,” the term “Business site” was changed to “Business post” to match the term used in the report. This correction does not materially change the analysis of the report. This report examines how often automated accounts share links on social media, […]

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    Theme 1: The information environment will not improve. The problem is human nature

    Misinformation and “fake news” have been around for as long as people have communicated. But today’s instant, low-budget, far-reaching communications capabilities have the potential to make the problem orders of magnitude more dangerous than in the past. Mankind has always lied, and always will; which is why the winners of wars get to write the […]

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    The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online

    Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions. Others say bad actors using technology can exploit human vulnerabilities.

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    Michael Barthel

    Michael Barthel is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, where he focuses on U.S. public opinion of the news media, journalism, and social media. He is the author of reports on the newspaper and public broadcasting media sectors, fake news, civic engagement and news habits, attitudes toward the news media, and Americans’ use of […]

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    Methodology

    To analyze the news that members of Congress share with their Facebook followers, researchers obtained a complete set of posts created by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and posted on their official pages between Jan. 2, 2015, and July 20, 2017. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API to download the posts. […]

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    2. General news outlets are the most common science news source; most-seen stories highlight discoveries and “weird” findings

    Even as news has diversified into multiple types of platforms and niche outlets, the general news media play an important role in providing the public news about science.[9. numoffset=”9″ For more on the changing science news landscape see Schafer, Mike S. 2017. “How Changing Media Structures Are Affecting Science News Coverage.” In Kathleen Hall Jamieson, […]