In the Media

Jonathan Nagler comments on the Trump Administration's use of digital media

Following the release of the Sora app, Solomon Messing speaks with NPR on the new era of AI in social media

In Tech Policy Press, Zeve Sanderson and Scott Brennen discuss what legislators can do to adjust existing age assurance laws for technologies, such as AI chatbots, that don’t fit the platform model they were built for.

Zeve Sanderson and Scott Brennen reflect on the past decade in the "misinformation field" for Noema, arguing the paradigm of research has overstated online misinformation’s role in politics, ignored much of what we know about how communication functions, and directed attention to strategies ill-suited to today’s information environment.

Jonathan Nagler describes the social media strategy used in New York City's mayoral race.

“What you’ve seen is this general movement among politicians, or those that are sort of skillful at doing this, into trying to produce this kind of content,” Josh Tucker told CNN.

"In a time where Y2K is back and even trendy among Gen Z, their new fascination with George W. Bush is likely our generation's yearning for 'simpler times,' despite being too young or not alive to remember 9/11 or the Iraq War," Lama Mohammed told Newsweek.

Zeve Sanderson states, "Mamdani has done almost the exact opposite...He made himself feel approachable and knowable by communicating his policy agenda and by us coming to understand him through his articulation of his policy agenda directly to the public via social media.”

Josh Tucker tells NBC News the Trump administration's digital strategy on social media is designed to “get people’s attention” and “privileges things that pop and that go viral.”

“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson

Zeve Sanderson gives context on the Supreme Court’s recent review of age verification laws on adult websites as well as explaining some possibly less-restrictive alternatives to current verification methods.

Zeve Sanderson speaks to NBC News on Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral campaign as compared to Andrew Cuomo's campaign.

"If a model has seen content like this during pretraining, there's the potential for the model to mimic the style and substance of the worst offenders on the internet," said Solomon Messing.

Jonathan Nagler provides context as to why former X CEO Linda Yaccarino may have resigned and questions XAI's lack of guardrails.

Joshua Tucker spoke to AFP on President Trump's recent criticism on reporters and media outlets over their coverage of US military strikes on Iran.

Jonathan Nagler provides insight into how New York City Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appealed to voters via social media.

CSMaP Executive Director Zeve Sanderson is quoted in Business Insider describing New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's sucessful campaign.

New York Times reporter Kwame Anthony Appiah cites CSMaP study published in Science to prove that during the 2020 election cycle, Facebook users who were switched to a raw, chronological feed were no less politically polarized than those using the algorithmic feed.

Mike Masnick of Ctrl-Alt-Speech is joined by CSMaP Executive Director Zeve Sanderson to discuss the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation.

Zeve Sanderson and Scott Brennen write in The Washington Post on the consequences of the recent artificial intelligence (AI) regulation moratorium in the House budget reconciliation plan. While state AI regulation may not be perfect, they have played a key role in protecting consumers, as the federal government has failed to act in this regulatory arena.

Podcasts are yet another example of how new media have created low cost ways for politicians to communicate to voters, and do so on their terms, Jonathan Nagler told The Hill.

Zeve Sanderson is mentioned in the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast where the hosts emphasize that age-verification laws on porn sites may not effectively protect minors and can instead drive users toward less regulated, potentially riskier platforms.

Zeve Sanderson joined The Atlantic's "Good on Paper" podcast to talk about age verification laws and the importance of having empirical feedback loops to test policy impacts.

By promoting cherry-picked posts that align with their worldviews, political elites are both spreading and incentivizing false information online, Zeve Sanderson told PolitiFact.

Age-verification laws, put into effect to prevent minors from accessing certain content, don't actually lead to safer behavior online, according to a recently published working paper.