Testing the Casual Impact of Social Media Reduction Around the Globe
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Through an social media reduction experiment across 23 countries and the generation of a global dataset, this paper will offer rare causal evidence to inform ongoing debates about the impact of social media and how it varies around the world.
NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics works to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
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Our Research
CSMaP publishes rigorous, policy-relevant research in top academic journals.
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Our Team
Drawing from politics, data science, biology, and sociology, we host a diverse community of scholars.
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Our Impact
Our work advances evidence-based public policy and discourse in the digital age.
Strengthening Democracy
Policymakers across the world are reshaping the laws and regulations governing online spaces. But without access to high-quality empirical evidence, legislators risk operating in the dark. That's where we come in.
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Policy
The Center on Technology Policy: State Technology Policy Report 2025
State legislatures continue to lead the development of technology policy in the United States, passing 345 laws across 48 states in 2025.
December 11, 2025
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Commentary
The Joe Rogan of the left, right, and center is just … Joe Rogan
A new analysis of podcasts shows that Rogan isn't as MAGA as you think.
December 18, 2025
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A Commitment to Open Science
As part of our project to construct comprehensive data sets and to empirically test hypotheses related to social media and politics, we have developed a suite of open-source tools and modeling processes.
Explore and download our data collection and analysis tools.