Implement the SocialMediaNewsExposure study module

jonathanmayer commented 4 years ago

This module should record when a user sees content on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube that the platform has identified as news content, regardless of whether we recognize the domain or account/page/channel name.

Some thoughts on possible implementation...

Twitter: unclear if this is doable.
Facebook: enriched links include a "Show more information about this link" option, which pops up an "About This Content" pane with a classification for the source of the link. Looks like the popup is loaded with a POST to https://www.facebook.com/feed/article_context/dialog/?share_id=..., which might be difficult to generate and/or parse.
YouTube: video pages can include a "Category" of "News & Politics". This is definitely the easiest to implement.

PranayAnchuri commented 4 years ago

progress @ https://github.com/citp/web-science/tree/issue25

jonathanmayer commented 4 years ago

Nice. Would probably make sense to maintain this as a collection of content scripts, injected only on the relevant social media domains. Something like...

socialMediaNewsExposure-common.js - injected on all social media match patterns, includes shared functions (e.g., storage and posting to the background page)
socialMediaNewsExposure-youtube.js - injected on YouTube match patterns, includes functions for identifying news exposure on YouTube
socialMediaNewsExposure-facebook.js - same for Facebook

Some possibly helpful related work for parsing Facebook posts: https://github.com/globeandmail/fbpac-extension

PranayAnchuri commented 4 years ago

Done for Youtube.

citp / news-disinformation-study

Implement the SocialMediaNewsExposure study module #25