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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy
We use cutting-edge science to understand the information ecosystem and leverage that research to strengthen democracy.
About Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy
The Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy is committed to independent research on the information ecosystem and its impact on democracy. Our mission is to advance our collective understanding of the information landscape through cutting-edge science—then leverage that research to foster a more informed society and strengthen the foundations of democracy. We focus on the media organizations and the online platforms, the incentives and the algorithms, that determine which ideas and beliefs spread, and which don’t. The Center’s faculty and scholars are distinguished by their use of emerging technology for data-driven research of the information ecosystem, including novel data collections, large-scale cloud computing, and innovative applications of AI.
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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy published research by Matt Levendusky and Kathleen Hall Jamieson revealing that doubting the legitimacy of one election can harden into a stable belief that colors how people perceive subsequent elections.
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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy published research by Danaé Metaxa and Ro E. finding that LLMs are not reliable sources of abortion information, with accuracy weakest in abortion-restrictive states.
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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy published research by Dan Roth digging into why asking an LLM the same question two different ways is a cheap, effective way to catch when it doesn't actually know the answer.
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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy published research by Chris Callison-Burch and Delip Kumar showing that search-enabled LLMs still get roughly half of academic citations wrong, leaning on internal memory over the sources they actually retrieve.
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Penn Center on Media, Technology and Democracy published Emily Falk’s paper showing that explaining why a story matters to you or someone you know can reliably boost sharing of accurate news.
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