The Meta Studies: Nuanced Findings, Corporate Spin, and Media Oversimplification

A collaboration between social scientists and Meta has been held up as a potential “new model for platform research” that may help explain the effects social media companies have on politics and democratic institutions. But as the promised remaining dozen papers emerge from this collaboration, it is clear that journalists and policymakers would do well to read them closely, and to view Meta’s spin with skepticism. The post The Meta Studies: Nuanced Findings, Corporate Spin, and Media Oversimplif