New working paper just dropped!! 🚨🚨

Malia Bowers, Stefan McCabe and I are releasing a new working paper: “White Supremacy, Democrats, and Anti-Abortion Support”
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📢 Exciting Results! 📢 Our latest paper in Health Education and Behavior reveals that engaging with vaccine-hesitant individuals in private Facebook groups can lead to significant improvements in COVID-19 vaccination intentions AND intentions to encourage others to vaccinate!

Today’s release of the first of the Meta 2020 studies is a signal moment. It underscores the importance of computational social science — and the need for guaranteed data access for the scholars advancing our understanding of the (digital) world. Mike Wagner

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

'Wired to split: How Meta's algorithms affected the 2020 US presidential election” is how Science Magazine titles its publication of a first round of studies on Facebook's influence on public debate. They’re fascinating - but at the same time, their limitations are clear🧵👇

📅 Join us Friday 12 pm ET for our 'AI Regulation Roundup.' AI policy experts will recap the dizzying number of AI policy proposals over the last seven months. Join us in-person or virtually. MT Nicholas P. Garcia Anna Lenhart Joshua Landau (@[email protected])
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'In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, US medical schools must preserve and promote diversity in healthcare using alternative strategies,' writes GW School of Nursing professor Y. Tony Yang and
GW SMHS professor Sawali Sudarshan. bmj.com/content/382/bm…

Twitter's name change is more than just a rebrand. 'Unlimited interactivity' needs transparency to be safe. It's important to allow researchers to dive deep into the changes in security, usage, and expansion on this 'everything app' before it becomes dangerous.

The White House says big tech companies have committed to safeguarding against risks posed by artificial intelligence. What they've pledged plus reaction from David A. Broniatowski TRAIL - Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab, a newly launched institute working to research the future of AI

On August 16th, this working group is hosting a special session where participants offer feedback and analysis on privacy issues and the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA). The discussion will be facilitated by the incredible Anna Lenhart from IDDP | @[email protected]. Join us!

New article just dropped!!!
(PS it’s open access)

'Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy'

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Today, Sen. Chuck Schumer will lay out a vision for regulating #ArtificialIntelligence . Also this week, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) & Ken Buck (R-Colo.) introduced bipartisan legislation to create a commission to review, recommend & establish regulations for…

In response to the false narrative perpetuated by the news media (ahem...NYT) suggesting that Congress has yet to propose legislation “to protect individuals or thwart the development of A.I.'s potentially dangerous aspects,” Anna Lenhart IDDP | @[email protected] GW University joins Carah Ong Whaley to…