press

Press coverage of my studies!

  • “Does YouTube’s Algorithm Radicalize Young Americans? New Study Has Answers” (February 24, 2024) — TechTimes.

  • “The YouTube algorithm isn’t radicalizing people.” (February 20, 2024) — Featured in Penn Today.

  • “Cable News Confusion” (September 27, 2022) — Research presented in talk at PolitiFact’s virtual United Facts of America conference.

  • “YouTube pushed Trump supporters toward voter fraud videos, study finds” (September 1, 2022) — Featured as an expert counterpoint opinion in NBC News.

  • “TV Echo Chambers and Political Polarization” (August 18, 2022) — Broadcast live on Sydney’s 2SER 107.3FM, research was the central topic of the Fourth Estate radio show

  • “Homa Hosseinmardi on TV, Social Media and Political Echo Chambers” (August 17, 2022) — Featured in Penn Engineering Today.

  • “Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization – cable news has a bigger effect, study finds” (August 10, 2022) — Original research op-ed featured in The Conversation US

  • “TV news top driver of political echo chambers in U.S.” (July 26, 2022) — Featured in Penn Today

  • “A Platform ‘Weaponized’: How YouTube Spreads Harmful Content—And What Can Be Done About It” (June 2022) — Research cited in NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights’ report on misinformation on YouTube

  • “Wharton Women in Data Science and Analytics” (March 6, 2022) — Featured in the Wharton School’s list of Women Creating Social Impact with Analytics

  • “Misinformation: What Should Our Tech Overlords Do?” (February 24, 2022) — Interviewed by Gimlet Media’s Science VS podcast

  • “What Big Data Reveals About Online Extremism” (November 2021) — Interview/spotlight piece featured in Annenberg School for Communication news

  • Research cited in congress (October 2021) — “Evaluating the scale, growth, and origins of right-wing echo chambers on YouTube” cited in an expert testimony in a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

  • “If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data” (August 2021) — Research on the consumption of radical content on YouTube covered in Ars Technica

  • “YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan on the Algorithm, Monetization, and the Future for Creators” (August 2021) — Research on the consumption of radical content on YouTube covered in The Verge

  • “Studie: Youtube radikalisiert User nicht systematisch” (August 3, 2022) — Interviewed by German radio and journal Deutschlandfunk