This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) pertains to the CSMaP News Evaluation 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.

What does News Evaluation Extension collect

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.

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. ## Data storage and access Data collected through the News Evaluation extension will be held on an encrypted postgres database in Amazon Web Services(AWS). Only approved researchers and app engineers will have access to the data. CSMaP will not share or sell your data to commercial third-parties. All data collected will be anonymized and used for research purposes only. ## 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).