In the Media

Joshua A. Tucker breaks down Russia's 2016 toolkit for influencing the presidential campaign.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about researchers' need for archived data stored on social media platforms to better understand how people interact with politics online.

Joshua A. Tucker discuss the role that Russia, China, and Iran are playing in the 2020 US presidential election.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses how the type of information, or disinformation, people were exposed to influenced their confidence in the government during the election cycle.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses Russia's 2016 disinformation toolkit and how domestic actors are using it this election cycle to influence the election.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses how people feel towards the president's messaging around the pandemic.

A CSMaP report found that sharing articles from "fake news" sources was rarer than originally thought.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the stakes social media platforms' face when it comes to content moderation.

Experts say tech platforms and policymakers haven’t done enough in the wake of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, even while a new set of problems could take 2020’s interference effort into overdrive.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses the Big Tech CEO congressional hearing and their concerns over social media, disinformation, and election meddling.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about how is social media filling in the information gaps for voters during the lead up to the election as people are stuck at home because of Covid-19 .

Jonathan Nagler talks about how absentee ballots tend to skew progressive because those candidates encourage their voters to use them.

A CSMaP paper found that the same things that make social media great for activists, also makes it vulnerable to manipulation campaigns.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the impact of social media activity on political polarization.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the first time Twitter fact-checked Trump and whether this really had any impact on public confidence in the American electoral process.

Joshua A. Tucker addresses how social media companies are now facing increasing pressure to regulate the content on their platforms more heavily.

Joe Biden acknowledged the anniversary of the Charleston church shooting. The Iowa Governor secured voting rights, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's stance on political speech on the platform.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about Facebook and the FCC helping Trump to make his argument against social media platforms.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about Facebook's potential problems with showing partisanship if they take an active role in moderating content.

Joshua A. Tucker weighed in with other experts and agrees that Trump needs Twitter, more than Twitter needs him, to reach his base during the pandemic.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the difficulties that Twitter faces to moderate content in a non-partisan way.

Jonathan Nagler discusses how mail-in voting might depress voter turn-out.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the politicization of the coronavirus and how prominent figures can combat misinformation.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the effects of large levels of exposure to fake news on people's opinions towards the candidates in the 2020 presidential election.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses activism and its reliance on social media to organize.