In the Media

Megan A. Brown talks about the effects of deplatforming political figures online.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about political sectarianism and how it makes it difficult for people to dispel misinformation because they become impervious to facts.

Joshua A. Tucker explains why 'finstas' aren't a good way to create policy.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about TikTok's algorithm in comparison to Facebook and Twitter.

A CSMaP study found that "politely phrased" warnings can go a long way toward shaming people into better behavior on platforms like Twitter.

A CSMaP study found that warning Twitter users that someone they follow had been suspended -- and that they could also face suspension -- cut down on the amount of hate speech.

A CSMaP study found that giving Twitter users "suspension warnings" seriously reduced the amount of hate speech that the users used on the platform.

A CSMaP study found that users who received suspension warnings generally declined their racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise prohibited language on the platform by 10 percent.

A CSMaP study found that personalized warnings alerting Twitter users to the consequences of their behavior, reduced the amount of tweets with hateful language.

A CSMaP study tested different ways to limit hate speech on platforms like Twitter, and found that just sending users suspension warnings about their behavior, greatly limited the amount of hate speech from those accounts.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses how a void of information can help lead to misinformation.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about Twitter's new approach to fact-checking and whether research backs up its effectiveness.

A CSMaP study found that lawmakers whose tweets cause the most outrage online, received the most amount of interactions with their tweets by other users -- mostly in the form of "dunking".

Zeve Sanderson talks about how quickly the media environment norms and standards change. He also discusses the new possibilities tech companies have with the metaverse.

Zeve Sanderson discusses the attention that platforms, like YouTube, received after trying to institute content moderation policies.

A CSMaP study found a significant rise in election fraud YouTube videos shared on Twitter immediately following the Nov. 3 election.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the power of name recognition and its ability to help celebrity politicians to succeed.

A CSMaP study found that Trump’s messages that were labeled for misinformation by Twitter spread further than tweets that receive no intervention at all. 

A CSMaP study found that tweets flagged for misinformation on Twitter, still spread on Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.

Zeve Sanderson talks about a CSMaP study that found that misinformation flagged on one platform, continues to spread on other ones through screenshots and other posts.

A new CSMaP study found that Trump tweets, either blocked or labeled as false on Twitter, still spread on other platforms -- sometimes out performing tweets with no flags.

A CSMaP study found that it's unlikely that social media is the main driver of polarization, however, it's often a key facilitator.

Jonathan Nagler discusses a recent Yale paper that found that social media platforms like Twitter, amplify our collective moral outrage.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about sensitivity filters getting better over time, making it unclear how Instagram's new policy will affect the majority of its users.

Joshua A. Tucker and Kevin Aslett discuss how Googling fake news can actually increase one's belief in it.