While much misinformation research is focused on the United States, there's scholarship on misinfo being done around globe. A 🧵on articles in a new special issue on Global Mis/Disinformation edited by Jo(sephine) Lukito in International Journal of Public Opinion Research (EIC Porismita borah) doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/…

Breaking up Google an option being considered by US, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/3SMfqJo

RIP CrowdTangle 🕊️ Transparency: Gone but not forgotten. Today Meta is killing CrowdTangle, a vital tool for researchers and journalists. Today, CITR members have launched the ripcrowdtangle.com website to commemorate and raise awareness of the loss.

We published today at VoxDev an article about our research on misinformation and WhatsApp in Brazil! This is a general summary of our academic article “Exposure to Misinformation Beyond Traditional Feeds”. Thank you so much for the opportunity!

Just realized Jason's account was suspended sometime after his announcement about Pushshift coming back, and found an Randall Munroe comic that says it all while QTing evidence. Unsuspend JSON Baumgartner!

Deactivating multimedia on WhatsApp in Brazil consistently reduced exposure to online misinformation during the pre-election weeks in 2022, but did not impact whether false news was believed, or reduce polarization. Read our analysis at VoxDev

In the lead-up to the US presidential election, research by USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science Professor Emilio Ferrara aims to combat malicious online interference in real-time. viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/08/t… USC Viterbi School USC School of Advanced Computing

1. Laziness does not exist (but unseen barriers do): humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-… When I use it: when students are being hard on themselves

A reminder about our postdoctoral position in the science of science. Topics: evolution of science, prediction of future discoveries, measuring innovation, etc. For Network Science Society people, lots of fun networks to play with! Apply here: IU Luddy @ApsGsnp indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25173

Nice article in Tech Policy Press summarizes research from our lab and others on the dangers of disinformation: 🧪 techpolicy.press/researchers-va…

Paper with Tanmoy Chakraborty Emilio Ferrara Renee DiResta et al. finally out in Nature Machine Intelligence! 🧪 Factuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking doi.org/10.1038/s42256… Accessible at rdcu.be/dRFy0

We're hiring in cognitive psychology American University -- join me in DC! The call is broad; please do apply if you're interested, but a bonus for experimental research touching on computation and/or politics. Apps due Sept 15 More details: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-Ca…

🚨Have you ever worried about respondents in your online panels who take many other online surveys and tasks daily? I will present a paper at #APSA2024 measuring the prevalence of these professionals and investigating their effects on the quality of online panels. Quick 🧵

🚨2024 #polcomm #comm j-school TT job posting 🧵 This is my 3rd year doing it and while it seems like we're over the "covid slump," being on the job market is still stressful & exhausting, so please take care of yourself!

"The overlooked need for Ethics in Complexity Science: Why it matters": new arxiv out with an amazing group of people from the whole world. I fully dedicated myself on this call for action, but we need you! Please share! More info on this thread 👇👇👇 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02002

🚨New in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No! Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms! rdcu.be/dSHtF

Big paper I have been waiting for: what are the real impacts of AI on programmer productivity? It is a randomized controlled trial using the older, less-powerful GPT-3.5 powered Github Copilot for 4,867 coders in Fortune 100 firms. It finds a 26.08% increase in completed tasks.

*Very* excited for this paper-led by amazing Cameron Martel (on the job market!)-to be out. He validates a scale for trust in fact-checkers & presents experiments w 14k subjects showing that fact-checker warnings reduce misinfo belief + sharing even among those low in trust!

We got a grant news.iu.edu/live/news/3779…

Come say hi if you are interested in online segregation/polarization. I’ll be presenting our work with 🇺🇦 [email protected] Friday 2 pm at talk about our work on Twitter segregation: We are not only divided by partisan lines but also by age and gender. #APSA2024 APSA