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What is screen time doing to children? The Economist , April 17, 2024

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