“They forget to think about whether it's true, but rather how many likes they'll get."

"Underpinning the question of possible violence is an even broader question: Will Donald Trump voters accept Joe Biden as the president?"

"Our experiment shows that shared partisanship does indeed have a large impact on social tie formation."

Prof. David Rand discusses intuitive vs. deliberative modes of decision making and how they figure into the dissemination of fake news.

Prof. David Rand and his team is conducting a survey in The New York Times on news in social media.

“I started as a punk rocker, then became a computational biologist, then a behavioral economist, and then a cognitive psychologist."

....we'll analyze how a few brave readers interact with news on social media – with help from David Rand...

Professor David Rand’s work bridges the fields of cognitive science, behavioral economics, and social psychology.

TikTok consulted with MIT’s Dr. David G. Rand, whose research has examined how users respond to different types of AI labels.

David G. Rand says: “The people who are trying to be deceptive are not going to put the [A.I.] label on their stuff.”