In the Media

Jonathan Nagler talks about Twitter's intervention around Trump and the effects that it might have on his future messaging.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the misinformation of 2020 and how it made some question the integrity of the election.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the events of Jan. 6 and how social media was used to organize the group attending the rally and the effects this might have on the future of our democracy.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about the use of the term "civil war" and how this phrase generated on Parler and then lent itself to the Jan. 6 moment.

Joshua A. Tucker talks about social media and its influence on democracy.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses online influence campaigns and their strategies around fake news.

Joshua A. Tucker discusses foreign influence campaigns and their role in domestic political campaigns and the changing dynamic around domestic actor influence.

A CSMaP survey found that those who voted for Trump in 2016 thought he broke fewer than one in five campaign promises.

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.