Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) pertains to the News Evaluation Chrome extension (“extension”) provided by New York University’’s Center for Social Media and Politics (“CSMaP”, “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and research participants (“you,”your”) right to privacy.

You have been invited to take part in a research study to help researchers at CSMaP understand how citizens learn about and evaluate the key claims of news articles.

News Evaluation is a Chrome extension that collects browsing data from registered research participants who agree to be part of a study. To be part of a CSMaP study, a participant first completes a survey and opts-in to sharing web browsing data through the News Evaluation extension. This data will consist of the URL you visit and any of your search engine results from Google and/or AI assistants if you search for anything. Data collected through News Evaluation is anonymized and used for academic purposes only. The confidentiality of your research records will be strictly maintained. Raw survey data will be held on an encrypted hard drive, separate from all other datasets. These hard drives will be stored in locked cabinets. Once anonymized, survey data will be stored on secure NYU servers.

Participation

Participation in this study is voluntary. You may refuse to participate or withdraw at any time without penalty. To revoke your consent of any portion of this study, email factcheckingsurvey@gmail.com with your request. ## Contact If there is anything about the study or your participation that is unclear or that you do not understand, if you have questions or wish to report a research-related problem, you may contact Joshua Tucker at (212) 998-7598, joshua.tucker@nyu.edu, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY, 10012. For questions about your rights as a research participant, you may contact the University Committee on Activities Involving Human Subjects (UCAIHS), New York University, 665 Broadway, Suite 804, New York, New York, 10012, at ask.humansubjects@nyu.edu or (212) 998-4808. Please reference study # (IRB-FY2025-9354) when contacting the IRB (UCAIHS).