Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, Author at Social Science Space

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). Before joining USF he was a research scientist at the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI). Prior to that he has been the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Postodoctoral fellowship, an analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation Filippo Menczer is a professor of informatics and computer science at Indiana University, Bloomington, with courtesy appointments in cognitive science and physics. He holds a Laurea in Physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Misinformation and Biases Affect Social Media, Intentionally and Accidentally

Information on social media can be misleading because of biases in three places – the brain, society and algorithms. Scholars are developing ways to identify and display the effects of these biases.