Of the many things I loved about The Markup, high on the list was the belief that we can and should challenge technology to serve the public good. @Mozilla has been carrying that torch for decades. I'm overjoyed to share that I'll be joining as its executive director!

In Lawfare, Bruce Mehlman and I write about how AI is changing tech politics. The key emerging divide is between AI regulatory optimists and AI regulatory skeptics, which will create some unexpected bedfellows that will lead to new coalitions and factions. lawfaremedia.org/article/how-ai…

does anybody know of a list of fact checked / popular images generated by AI?

A personal update… Friday is my last day at KAKE News. It’s been an awesome three years here and six in Kansas, but it’s time for something new. What’s next? I’m not sure yet. I’m open to anything in sports. If you’re looking for a decorated sports reporter/anchor, I’m ready.

Congrats to the authors Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Sarah Graham, Minjoo Kim, Joshua Tucker, and Sol Messing. You can read the full article at Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media's site. 10/ journalqd.org/article/view/5…

Exciting and rewarding to edit the ICWSM 2024 Special Issue of Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media with Sarah Shugars and Yini Zhang! 😃to see the articles published today and looking forward to presentations at the conference next week! All manuscripts published 💎 open access: journalqd.org/issue/view/vol…

We're pleased to announce the publication of our first special issue in collaboration with ICWSM! This special issue aims to build bridges between scholarly communities engaging in the study of digital media. See thread below for more on the 8 fantastic papers in this series.

Check out the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media and ICWSM special issue that we guest-edited! The articles showcase the wide range of data, methods, and contributions in quantitative descriptive work on digital media.

Excited to share that our paper "Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet" with Observatory on Social Media has been published in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media . DOI: doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2… I'll present it @ICWSM on June 4 at 10am and the poster session in that afternoon. See the thread below for details:

Proud to have helped lead this special issue, bringing together the ICWSM and Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media communities There is so much great work being done, and a pressing need for descriptive work It was an honor to work with Yini Zhang & Jason Jeffrey Jones on strengthening this community!

Digital media research is changing, and it can make it that much harder to study elections, as Megan A. Brown and I argue in our new Tech Policy Press piece. techpolicy.press/digital-media-…

Absolutely 🔥 testimony from Dr. Mary Anne Franks in tomorrow's House hearing on the "Censorship Industrial Complex" In particular these grafs. docs.house.gov/meetings/SM/SM…

New op-ed from me in Foreign Policy!✍️🌏 The premise: to regulate AI effectively, we need information about how people actually use it, not just how it could be used. That requires giving researchers access to new kinds of data.

In this year of elections, many worry a variety of factors — advances in AI, TikTok, misinfo, etc — could undermine elections. In a new series, CSMaP experts Tiago Ventura, Cristina de la Puerta, Lama Mohammed, & Jennifer Allen explain what they're watching in 2024 csmapnyu.org/impact/news/wh…

This paper has it all: 7 platforms, 4 countries & 2 time periods. We find a funnel process where large numbers adopt a platform, fewer see political content, and even fewer post. In this funnel process, ideological differences become larger. Cc: Christian Pieter Hoffmann Michael Bossetta

Excited to share that I have joined the LAPOP Lab Vanderbilt University 🤩 Looking forward to contributing to the AmericasBarometer data collection 🌎 and continuing my research agenda on survey methods and comparative political behavior. #LAPOP #AmericasBarometer

📢 New Paper Alert! 📢 AI policy is being developed in a vacuum — we only know how these systems could be used, not how they are actually used. But, as I argue, researcher access to data can help, and it can be done safely. See how in my latest report for Center for Democracy & Technology 📄🔍

In this paper I talk about three privacy-preserving approaches companies can consider adopting to safely share AI usage information with researchers: 1) Data donations 2) Transparency reports 3) Mediated direct data access cdt.org/insights/groun…

Can we rebuild trust in the information environment? 📅 Register now for our 10/9 virtual event w/Center for News, Technology & Innovation - CNTI BrandiCD wrote BLACK SKINHEAD (on sale now), Indira Lakshmanan, Amy Mitchell, Jay Rosen, & Zeve Sanderson will explore the breakdown in trust and what can be done to repair it. nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This paper👇🏼 is interesting because it highlights how difficult effective interventions are when taking into consideration how misinformation actually (!) spreads. Too often, debates about interventions are based on misunderstandings about the spread of misinformation.