Chuan Yu
Stanford University
15 Papers
Chuan Yu is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Misinformation & Social media. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media
TL;DR: The results suggest that the relative magnitude of the misinformation problem on Facebook has declined since its peak, and interactions with false content have fallen sharply on Facebook while continuing to rise on Twitter.
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Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media
TL;DR: This article measured trends in the diffusion of misinformation on Facebook and Twitter between January 2015 and July 2018, focusing on stories from 570 sites that have been identified as producers of false stories and found that interactions with these sites on both Facebook, while they continued to rise on Twitter, with the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares falling by approximately 60 percent.
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Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media
TL;DR: This paper measured trends in the diffusion of misinformation on Facebook and Twitter between January 2015 and July 2018, focusing on stories from 570 sites that have been identified as producers of false stories and found that interactions with these sites on both Facebook, while they continued to rise on Twitter, with the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares falling by approximately 60 percent.
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Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists
TL;DR: An alternative framework is developed that allows variation in both preferences and diagnostic skill, and it is shown that both dimensions are identified in standard settings under quasi-random assignment and applied to study pneumonia diagnoses by radiologists.
The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
TL;DR: This article found that stricter licensing requirements, especially those emphasizing academic coursework, increase the left tail of the quality distribution for secondary school teachers without significantly decreasing quality for high-minority or high-poverty districts.