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America’s News Influencers
Appendix E: Validation of GPT-4 topic classification
By Galen Stocking, Luxuan Wang, Michael Lipka, Katerina Eva Matsa, Regina Widjaya, Emily Tomasik and Jacob Liedke
Table of Contents
- America’s News Influencers
- 1. Americans’ experiences with social media news influencers
- 2. How we created a list of popular news influencers, and where they post
- 3. A profile of news influencers: Gender, politics and more
- 4. How news influencers who have worked for news organizations differ from those who haven’t
- 5. A closer look at the topics of news influencers’ posts
- 6. News influencers on Facebook
- 7. News influencers on Instagram
- 8. News influencers on TikTok
- 9. News influencers on X (formerly Twitter)
- 10. News influencers on YouTube
- Acknowledgments
- Methodology
- Appendix A: News influencers studied
- Appendix B: Detailed tables for analysis of sample of news influencers
- Appendix C: Detailed tables for analysis of sampled posts from news influencers
- Appendix D: GPT-4 Topic classification instructions
- Appendix E: Validation of GPT-4 topic classification
