Social Media

The U.S. is considering a TikTok ban. Philadelphia content creators don’t care

Postdoctoral fellow Frances Corry of the Annenberg School for Communication says that TikTok isn’t going anywhere and that the U.S. needs to include Silicon Valley’s major social media platforms in a conversation about data collection and consumer protection.

A silhouette of a person in black on a red background. The person is holding a phone that reads "COVID-19" and the back of the head is open, with many different symbols flowing out, including a globe, a hospital, a needle, a vial, a mask, the dollar sign, and a TV screen that reads "Fake News."

Q&A

Why COVID misinformation continues to spread

Penn Medicine’s Anish Agarwal discusses why false claims about the virus and vaccines arise and persist, plus what he hopes will come from NIH-funded research he and Penn Engineering’s Sharath Chandra Guntuku have recently begun.

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Is social media good or bad for social unity?

Annenberg professors Sandra González-Bailón and Yphtach Lelkes reviewed all of the previous literature to determine what scholars have discovered to date.

From Penn student to record deal: How a 15-second TikTok video changed my lifefoam

In an Op-Ed, Wharton School fourth-year Inci Gurun from Istanbul writes about her journey from first-time TikToker to viral singer-songwriter.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, so does misinformation about it

Anish Agarwal of the Perelman School of Medicine says that online and offline discussions and impressions of the coronavirus are constantly shifting.

Elon Musk polls Twitter users on whether he should step down as chief executive

Pinar Yildirim of the Wharton School says that Elon Musk’s new Twitter policies are anti-competitive, preventing communication across consumers comparing competitors.

Experts weigh in on Twitter CEO Musk’s ‘mistakes’

Pinar Yildirim of the Wharton School says that Elon Musk’s recent Twitter poll was likely a way to find a justification to step down.

Improving mental health through social media

Jennifer Reid of the Perelman School of Medicine writes that mental health clinicians have a valuable opportunity to harness the power of social media for good.

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What the Twitter upheaval means to Penn health services researchers

LDI senior fellows weigh in on Twitter’s current upheaval, and whether they think the situation at the social media company will impact how they disseminate research in the future.

Building and sustaining public trust in science

For “Washington Post Live,” Francis Collins quotes Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center as saying that all of the most significant COVID misinformation campaigns were predictable and could have been “pre-bunked.”

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