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One possibility is that social media acts like an addictive drug — in fact, the people Allcott et al.

The effect is statistically distinguishable from zero at the p < 0.01 level, both when considered individually and after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing along with the full set of political outcomes considered in Allcott et al.

The effect is statistically distinguishable from zero at the p = 0.016 level when considered individually, and at the p = 0.14 level after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing along with the outcomes in Allcott et al.

It seems like there was a study from Stanford, regarding effect on the latest USA ellection: > Gentzkow and Allcott find that the most widely circulated hoaxes were seen by only a small fraction of Americans.

>>> As a robustness check, we constructed alternate measures using a list curated by Allcott and Gentzkow (2), who combined multiple sources across the political spectrum (including some used by Silverman) to generate a list of fake news stories specifically debunked by fact-checking organizations.

This is particularly notable because the current EPA analysis does not include benefits or costs from fatalities, but relies heavily on myopic consumers realizing large future fuel savings to pass a cost-benefit test, which recent economic evidence brings into question (Busse, Knittel, and Zettelmeyer, 2013; Allcott and Wozny, 2014; Sallee, West, and Fan, 2016).

In a recent paper, economists Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow investigated how much money they had to pay Facebook users in order to get them to deactivate the Facebook app for one or two months.