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Media impacts economies, society and democracy itself — people value social media but it also makes them less happy: Matthew Gentzkow
The Economic Times, August 3, 2023
Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say
The New York Times, July 27, 2023
Facebook False News in US Election Reached More Conservatives, Study Says
Bloomberg , July 27, 2023
Meta’s algorithms show that America’s political polarisation has no easy fix
The Economic Times, July 27, 2023
Does social media polarize voters? Unprecedented experiments on Facebook users reveal surprises
Science , July 27, 2023
New study shows just how Facebook’s algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles
NPR , July 27, 2023
Chronological feeds won’t fix platform polarization, new Meta-backed research suggests
The Verge , July 27, 2023
Changing Facebook’s algorithm won’t fix polarization, new study finds
The Washington Post , July 27, 2023
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
Wired , July 27, 2023
Tweaking Facebook feeds is no easy fix for polarization, studies find
Nature, July 27, 2023
Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers.
NBC News, July 27, 2023
So Maybe Facebook Didn’t Ruin Politics
The Atlantic , July 27, 2023
Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t alter people’s beliefs: research
Agence France Presse , July 27, 2023
Deep dive into Meta’s algorithms shows that America’s political polarization has no easy fix
Los Angeles Times , July 17, 2023
Does Facebook Polarize Users? Meta Disagrees With Partners Over Research Conclusions
The Wall Street Journal , July 27, 2023
A huge study of Meta’s impact on the 2020 election offers no easy fix for political polarization
Fast Company , July 27, 2023
Score one for ‘the algorithm’
Politico , July 27, 2023
An International Look at Affective Polarization
Not Another Politics Podcast, December 7, 2022
How Harmful is Social Media?
The New Yorker, June 3, 2022
Cell Phone Data Adds New Detail to Our Picture of Urban Segregation
Stanford Business School , March 11, 2022
How to Break a Phone Addiction
The Atlantic , October 7, 2021
An Economist’s Advice On Digital Dependency
NPR , August 9, 2021
Germany Found a Way to Reduce Polarization. Could It Work in the U.S.?
The Atlantic , July 30, 2021
New study finds that smartphones really are addictive. But skeptics remain cautious
Fast Company , June 30, 2021
Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy
FiveThirtyEight , June 16, 2021
We See the Left. We See the Right. Can Anyone See the ‘Exhausted Majority’?
The New York Times , March 24, 2021
A polarized America: How the partisan divide grew over decades, and why liberals and conservatives just can’t get along
Cleveland.com , August 30, 2020
The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live
The New York Times , May 25, 2020
Gun-toting Republicans ignoring quarantine orders? Yes, even coronavirus has become part of the culture wars
Los Angeles Times , April 17, 2020
Trump Voters Aren’t Staying In As Much As Everybody Else
Wired , April 15, 2020
How do political beliefs impact the response to coronavirus?
CNN , April 15, 2020
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
CNN , April 15, 2020
Hoaxes: The Original Fake News
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson , February 13, 2020
Not all democracies are experiencing American-style tribalism
The Economist , February 7, 2020
What polarization data from 9 countries reveals about the US
Vox , January 24, 2020
The Kids Are All Right
Scientific American , November 1, 2019
Fake news is less of a threat to democracy than we imagine
CBC , October 4, 2019
Democrats focus on victims, Republicans on perpetrators after mass shootings, study finds
The Washington Post , June 26, 2019
What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy
Bloomberg , May 1, 2019
Facebook’s Outages Reveal Its Value to Society
Bloomberg , March 14, 2019
Here’s how much you’d have to pay people to deactivate Facebook for a month
CNBC , March 1, 2019
What happens when you get off Facebook for four weeks? Stanford researchers found out.
Recode , February 27, 2019
What would happen if Facebook were turned off?
The Economist , February 12, 2019
Facebook Bums Us Out But We’ll Pay for It Anyway
Bloomberg , February 4, 2019
Delete your account: leaving Facebook can make you happier, study finds
The Guardian , February 1, 2019
A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
Salon , January 31, 2019
Leaving Facebook makes people happier but less informed, study says
CNN , January 31, 2019
How Quitting Facebook Could Change Your Life
Fortune , January 31, 2019
Deactivating Facebook leaves people less informed but happier, study finds
The Washington Post , January 31, 2019
This Is Your Brain Off Facebook
The New York Times , January 30, 2019
In Facebook’s Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep Up
The Wall Street Journal , October 18, 2018
Hutchins Roundup: Economic overheating, local opioid supply, and more
The Brookings Institution , October 18, 2018
Facebook’s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working. (Twitter’s? Not so much.)
Nieman Lab , September 21, 2018
Facebook is finally making progress against fake news
Yahoo! News , September 17, 2018
Facebook beats Twitter at fighting fake news, a new study found
The Verge , September 15, 2018
Facebook’s Crackdown on Misinformation Might Actually Be Working
Slate , September 14, 2018
Regional variation in US healthcare use: evidence from patient migration
Microeconomic Insights , September 5, 2018
Maybe Trump Isn’t the Internet’s Fault, After All
Slate , July 24, 2018
Classy Classes: ECON 47 examines media, social good
Stanford Daily , April 16, 2018
Fake news flourishes when partisan audiences crave it
The Economist , April 5, 2018
The case for charging rich and poor shoppers different prices
CNN , November 28, 2017
Retailers are charging the same prices across US, boosting income inequality, new research shows
CNBC , November 9, 2017
Political polarisation has grown most among the old
The Economist , April 20, 2017
Polarization Is Growing Most Among Older Adults
Forbes , April 16, 2017
Social media “filter bubbles” aren’t actually a thing, research suggests
Vice , April 14, 2017
Social Media Is Not Contributing Significantly to Political Polarization, Paper Says
New York Times , April 13, 2017
Something is breaking American politics, but it’s not social media
Vox , April 12, 2017
The Filter Bubble Revisited
Slate , April 5, 2017
Study: social media bubbles might not be making us more polarized after all
Vox , March 29, 2017
It’s not the internet’s fault you’re a jerk about politics
Washington Post , March 22, 2017
No one really knows what’s causing US political polarization, but it’s not the internet
Quartz , March 21, 2017
It’s Time to Stop Blaming Social Media for Political Polarization
Esquire , March 21, 2017
Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers
Vox’s Weeds Podcast , March 21, 2017
Don’t Blame Your Social Media Feed for the Growing Political Divide
Bloomberg , March 20, 2017
Is Social Media to Blame for Political Polarization in America?
U.S. News , March 20, 2017
Hard truths about fake news
Financial Times , February 28, 2017
A new study kills the notion that fake news swung the US election to Trump
Quartz , January 29, 2017
Real research suggests we should stop freaking out over fake news
Washington Post , January 24, 2017
The Numbers Are In: Fake News Didn’t Work
Bloomberg View , January 23, 2017
Economist Calculates Impact Of Fake News On Trump’s Election
NPR , January 23, 2017
‘Fake news’ didn’t change US election outcome: study
Agence France Presse , January 19, 2017
A flood of false headlines probably did not swing America’s election
The Economist , January 19, 2017
Did fake news help elect Trump? Not likely, according to new research
Poynter , January 18, 2017
Stanford study examines fake news and the 2016 presidential election
Stanford University , January 18, 2017
Researchers Created Fake News. Here’s What They Found.
New York Times , January 18, 2017
Stanford economist’s algorithm reveals increasing polarization in American political speech
Stanford Daily , August 31, 2016
In plain words: Republican or Democrat? Just listen
The Economist , August 4, 2016
The Way We Talk About Things Is More Partisan Than Ever
Chicago Magazine , July 26, 2016
The new language of U.S. politics: polarization
The Globe and Mail , July 25, 2016
Reps and Dems in Congress Speak in Completely Different Languages
New York Times , July 22, 2016
Why Democrats and Republicans Literally Speak Different Languages
The Atlantic , July 22, 2016
However divided you think our politics are, this chart shows that it’s actually way worse
Washington Post , July 22, 2016
Why Pay More for Medicine in Some Places?
Science , July 15, 2016
Interview with Matthew Gentzkow
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , May 23, 2016
How Stanford Took On the Giants of Economics
New York Times , September 10, 2015
Why Do We Really Follow the News?
Freakonomics Radio Podcast , August 5, 2015
Mega data
The University of Chicago Magazine , March 15, 2015
Media bias? Not such a big deal, economist says
The Boston Globe , February 18, 2015
40 under 40
Crain’s Chicago Business , November 29, 2014
Patient Health Doesn’t Explain Cost Differences
Bloomberg View , September 30, 2014
Making Headlines
Chicago Booth Magazine , September 15, 2014
How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
Freakonomics Radio Podcast , September 11, 2014
Generation Next
International Monetary Fund , September 1, 2014
Smart Money Buys Brand X
Bloomberg View , July 21, 2014
Breaking News: Online Ads Can Support Good Journalism
Capital Ideas, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business , June 17, 2014
Betting on a Brand When Politics Is the Family Business
New York Times , May 29, 2014
Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect
New York Times , May 3, 2014
The economics of the press
The Economist , April 30, 2014
Q&A: Clark Medal winner Matthew Gentzkow says the Internet hasn’t changed news as much as we think
Nieman Lab , April 29, 2014
The late edition
The Economist , April 26, 2014
The economist who revealed how media bias works
Quartz , April 25, 2014
Robert Samuelson: Media bias explained in two studies
Washington Post , April 23, 2014
U of C, land of big ideas
Chicago Tribune , April 21, 2014
Do Prizes Dent Productivity?
The Wall Street Journal , April 18, 2014
The hottest young economist in America studies the media, not monetary policy
Quartz , April 18, 2014
There Is A Media Slant, And Readers Might Be Responsible
NPR , April 18, 2014
University of Chicago Economist Who Studies Media Receives Clark Medal
New York Times , April 17, 2014
Economist Honored for Work on Media Slant
The Wall Street Journal , April 17, 2014
Chicago’s Gentzkow Wins John Bates Clark Young Economist Award
Bloomberg , April 17, 2014
Handicapping the John Bates Clark Medal
The Wall Street Journal , April 16, 2014
Generic Pain Relievers Work. So Why Do I Buy Name Brands for My Children?
New York Times , July 5, 2013
Why Doesn’t Everybody Buy Cheap, Generic Headache Medicine?
NPR , July 4, 2013
Step Away from the Tylenol
Slate , June 27, 2013
Who’s Smart Enough to Buy Generic?
The Wall Street Journal , June 20, 2013
Why Americans Pointlessly Pay Up for Brand-Name Drugs
The Atlantic , June 20, 2013
The Big Question: Does the Web Cause Political Polarization?
Capital Ideas, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business , June 17, 2013
Liberal or Conservative, the Problem is Ignorance
New York Times , November 12, 2011
The Internet Isn’t Killing Our Culture or Democracy
Forbes , June 5, 2011
The Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40
Poets & Quants , February 15, 2011
The Marmite Effect
The Economist , September 23, 2010
Does the Internet Help or Hurt Democracy?
PBS Newshour , June 1, 2010
In Search of Hard Facts About Media Bias
Financial Times , May 21, 2010
Do Liberals Read Only Liberal Blogs?
Ars Technica , April 19, 2010
Riders on the Storm
New York Times , April 19, 2010
Researchers: The Internet isn’t Polarizing America
The Wall Street Journal , April 19, 2010
The Price Of Bias
NPR Planet Money podcast , December 28, 2009
What Newspapers Do, Have Done and Will Do
New York Times , February 13, 2009
A Biased Market
The Economist , October 30, 2008
TV Can Be Good For You
Chicago Tribune , October 22, 2008
A New View on TV: Economists Probe the Data in Television Watching and Find It’s Not All Bad; Better Test Scores?
The Wall Street Journal , September 6, 2008
Economists Look at How TV Affects Time Use
The Wall Street Journal , September 6, 2008
Measuring media slant
The Economist Executive Briefing , February 5, 2008
Why You Didn’t Pay To Read This: Should newspaper Web sites really be free?
Slate , October 27, 2007
Undercover Economist: Did you pay to read this?
Financial Times , October 20, 2007
Murdoch Overwhelmed by Rival for Control of News: Amity Shlaes
Bloomberg , July 5, 2007
Hot Economist Probes Newspapers and ‘Bias’
Editor & Publisher , March 25, 2007
Newspapers Cater to Readers’ Politics
NPR , December 13, 2006
Lean Left? Lean Right? News Media May Take Their Cues From Customers
New York Times , December 7, 2006
It’s Not Me, It’s You
CBS News , December 7, 2006
How To Speak Republican…
Slate , December 6, 2006
Managing for Success: Do Papers Slant to Audience?
Investor’s Business Daily , October 30, 2006
Use Your Noggin: Let the Kids Watch Cartoons
The Wall Street Journal , July 14, 2006
Long Live the Boob Tube: Television Makes Kids Smarter. D’oh!
Forbes , April 10, 2006
A Fresh Take On Media Bias
CBS News , April 4, 2006
I Agree With You, Completely
Slate , April 3, 2006
Dear Economist
Financial Times , March 25, 2006
Kids’ problems may not be due to too much TV
Chicago Tribune , March 8, 2006
Go Ahead, Turn That Thing On
New York Times , March 5, 2006
Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television
New York Times , February 27, 2006
The Benefits of Bozo
Slate , February 16, 2006