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A New Study Uncovers How Information Spread on Facebook in the Lead up to and After the 2020 Election

Professor Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues analyzed the spread of over one billion Facebook posts to reveal how information flowed on the social network.

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Balancing Quantity and Quality: How X/Twitter’s Algorithm Influences Our Consumption of News

A new paper by Penn researchers, including Annenberg doctoral candidate Shengchun Huang, explores the dissemination of news on X/Twitter.

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New Study Reveals Democrats and Republicans Vastly Underestimate the Diversity of Each Other’s Views

A new study by Annenberg researchers has found that Democrats and Republicans consistently underestimate the diversity of views within each party on hot-button issues like immigration and abortion.

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A New Study Shows How the Brain Processes Partisan Information

Researchers from Annenberg, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and Dartmouth College used fMRI data to explore how partisan messaging is processed in the brain.

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Penn Students Get Convention Access in Extraordinary Political Times

Undergrads who attended the Republican or Democratic convention this summer are breaking down their experiences during the "Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns" course taught by Annenberg lecturers David Eisenhower, Marjorie Margolies, and Craig Snyder.

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Unpacking Polarization

A Q&A with Annenberg Associate Professor Yphtach Lelkes, co-director of the Polarization Research Lab.

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Trust in U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Sink

A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center has found that public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has continued a downward slide since the court’s 2022 Dobbs decision.

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A New Study Shows That Political Polarization Between Americans Stays Consistent Before and After Elections

Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Polarization Research Lab looked at the U.S. 2022 midterms and found the election didn’t spike political polarization.

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A Majority of Americans Can’t Recall Most First Amendment Rights

Most Americans can name only one right guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s 2024 Constitution Day Civics Survey.

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Race, Gender, and the Appeal to Youth in the Harris Campaign

Professor Sarah J. Jackson talks about how the Harris campaign is communicating differently than the Biden, Clinton, and Obama campaigns.