This much is obvious: What the world needs now is less fake news. In general, sure, but particularly on the planet's leading source of information: Facebook. The thing is, to separate the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. From its very first announcement, the Social Science One initiative, ...

Is it time to turn social media off? After the flurry of stories on Cambridge Analytica, Zuckerberg and Congress, personal data and political advertising, the question is whether Facebook – or social ...

Are you a tech freak who is always looking to know how the science & tech zone is creating wonders to change the world? Well, the emerging trend of social media has made it easier to share information ...

With a grant from the National Science Foundation, KQED Science, a unit of the San Francisco-based public media organization, had the opportunity to work with science communication researchers to ...

June 29: Updated with statement from Facebook, from the author of the study, and from the editor of the academic journal that published the study. The researchers, led by data scientist Adam Kramer, ...