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Soroush Vosoughi

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

The Electome: Where political journalism meets AIBuilt at the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) with support from Twitter and Knight Fou…

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?

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The spread of misinformation on social media is an alarming phenomenon that scientists have yet to fully understand. While the data show th…

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachusetts…