Information & Ethics committee  If you're on Facebook and you see a piece of content, you can add a reaction. It can be a happy face or—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  When we are searching for content we put a search filter on that says to only find us content that has a disproportionate amount of angry emoji reactions, because people have an angry emotional reaction to a lot of this deceiving content.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it leads to a lot of the false, misleading content. People who are perpetuating this understand that this is an emotional response, and so they are using material that makes you angry. If you look for those reactions, you end up finding a disproportionate number of these exa

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for your invitation to appear today. My apologies for not being able to attend in person. I am Dr. Claire Wardle. I'm a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School. I'm also the executive chair