How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in Ukraine
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A study with multilingual Ukrainians investigates how the language in which misinformation is presented influences its credibility
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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Drawing from politics, data science, biology, and sociology, we host a diverse community of scholars.
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Our work advances evidence-based public policy and discourse in the digital age.
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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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Research Coordination Network: Democracy in the Networked Era
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Causality Research Meets Policy: Measuring Impact in the New Digital Era
This half-day, in-person event in Washington, D.C., will convene experts from across fields to explore pressing questions around the surge of new tech policy worldwide, discuss policy changes, generate questions for research on policy impact, and identify priority issue areas.
October 30, 2025
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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.
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