The results for the first phase were that the team has a better understanding of how the algorithm works and the investigation of the reprint.
- “A particularly useful form of evidence comes from copying and quotation of text by different actors in a social network.”
The second phase also gave a better understanding to the team for how viral it can be outside of the United States, and it lead them to a larger group of newspaper scholars for phase 3.
- “Analyzing the text of bills proposed, amended, and passed in the U.S. Congress in order to determine how policy ideas progress and change in legislative bodies.”