Internet censorship has been attracting much attention from scholars and institutes, and several aspects have been studied, including IP blocking, keywords filtering and deletion in social media. However, although news is frequently subject to censorship, censorial practices in news websites...

Are editors’ choices of front page news based on the potential complementarities between the news items? This paper studies front page choices made by editors of major newspapers in the US. I document that newspapers front pages are biased to certain combinations of news on top of biased to...

How may configurations of content which are exposed to users as a result of an ‘algorithmic gut feeling’ on the Facebook News Feed challenge dominating epistemologies of news? The article suggests a genealogical-inspired framework to study news distinguishing between journalistic, user and...

The right of sovereign countries to protect themselves in times of crisis by resorting to otherwise unavailable measures has been “a bedrock feature of the international legal system”. Accordingly, the WTO system contains national security exceptions, on the basis of which Members may...

Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other...

Online sources sometimes publish information that is false or intentionally misleading. We study the role of social networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false...