Facebook Hiring Social Scientists for Misinformation and Other Topics

[Alex Leavitt]

Hi everyone,

The User Experience Research team at Facebook is hiring in a new job call specifically for my team working on "information integrity" issues. We're looking for more mixed-methods social scientists from political science, communication, psychology, sociology, anthropology, journalism, HCI, and other disciplines. People with international research experience strongly encouraged.

More details in the job call here: https://facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCa0KUAT

Industry researchers: if this is your domain expertise, please apply! Professors, send us your students and postdocs (or even yourself)!

Also, for flavor, here are a few of the many projects my team has worked on in the past year:

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/trusted-sources/

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/news-feed-fyi-updates-in-our-fight-against-misinformation/

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/news-feed-fyi-fighting-engagement-bait-on-facebook/

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10/news-feed-fyi-new-test-to-provide-context-about-articles/

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/05/news-feed-fyi-new-updates-to-reduce-clickbait-headlines/

- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/04/news-feed-fyi-new-test-with-related-articles/

Please reach out if you have any questions or a resume to share,

Alex

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Alex Leavitt, Ph.D.

Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt