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Information Gerrymandering on Social Networks, with Dr. Alexander Stewart

Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 8 a.m.

b'Dr. Alexander Stewart, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Houston, guests to discuss his research on "information gerrymandering," recently published in Nature. The study uses a voter game, mathematical modelling, social media data, and legislative data to examine how information asymmetries in social networks impact collective decision-making processes. We break down the study, and the implications of its findings for democracy.'