A research team that I lead is one of 12 inaugural recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research grants from the Social Science Research Council and their partner Social Science One. The team includes Rob Bond (Ohio State University), Ceren Budak (University of Michigan), Jason Jones (Stony Brook University), and Drew Margolin (Cornell University).

The award provides unprecedented access to anonymous data from Facebook on the sharing of online content. These data will be used to examine a variety of behaviors that could be harm people’s understanding of science, politics and their community, notably including sharing inaccurate information.

A brief description of the project is here: https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/grantees/garrett/

Other grantees are listed here: https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/grantees/

And more details about the types of data to be analyzed are here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/election-research-grants/