by Benedict Nicholson | Mar 23, 2022 | Digital Journalism
by James Park, Sagar Kumar, and Paul Resnick: Center for Social Media Responsibility, University of Michigan At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most...
by Benedict Nicholson | Mar 25, 2021 | Digital Journalism
At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most popular URLs on Facebook and Twitter that come from “Iffy” sites that often publish...
by Benedict Nicholson | Nov 16, 2020 | Digital Journalism
At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most popular URLs on Facebook and Twitter that come from “Iffy” sites that often publish...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 21, 2020 | Digital Journalism
When financial markets are volatile, there is often a “flight to quality” in investment allocations. People move their money into gold or other investments that they perceive to be less risky. During the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in the U.S., there was...