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News-Recommender-Favors-Liberal

Here are data and codes for the paper News Recommender Favors Liberals: Estimating Algorithmic Bias through Causal Inference.

Prepare the dataset

  1. Download the MIND dataset from https://msnews.github.io/.
  2. Unzip the files MINDlarge_train.zip and MINDlarge_dev.zip.
  3. Put the folders MINDlarge_train and MINDlarge_dev into data/mind.
  4. Run chmod 777 prepare_data.sh and ./prepare_data.sh in data/mind.

Run the codes

  1. Run chmod 777 run.sh and ./run.sh in code to get the effects used in the paper. For convinience, we have already prepared them in ./code/get_effect/result/mind.
  2. All the figures and results presented in our paper and SI can be reproduced by running ./code/figures.ipynb. You can cancel comments with plt.savefig() and the corresponding figures will be automatedly saved in ./figures.

Thanks for using our code!