Meta Research Exchange

Meta Research Exchange (previously called First Fridays) is a virtual community building event series specifically for researchers working with the URL Shares and other Meta datasets. In the sessions, the Meta product and partnerships teams announce product updates, and researchers can share their drafted and published works.

Spotlights from past sessions

• Political Dynamics of Sharing without Clicking by S. Shyam Sundar, James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects, Co-Director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, Director of Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, at the Pennsylvania State University

• Does United Kingdom Parliamentary Attention Follow Social Media Posts? by John Bryden, Executive Director of the Observatory on Social Media, at Indiana University

• Who sets the gun agenda on Facebook, and how? An intermedia agenda-setting analysis of gun control movement by K. Hazel Kwon, Associate Professor at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University

• Characterizing highly commented vs highly shared news stories circulated on Facebook between 2017 and 2020 by Fabio Giglietto, University of Urbino Carlo Bo

• Partisan Shares and Moderate Views – Audience Ideology Estimation in the Face of Differentially Private Data by Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland

• Cracking Open the Newsfeed, Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data by Kevin Aslett, Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics

• Sharing of Pandemic-related URLs on Facebook by Anatoliy Gruzd, Nikolai Krause, Philip Mai, Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

• Will We Ever Understand Facebook's Influence on Elections? A Scientists’ Perspective by Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile