News & Commentary

There are three areas — content moderation, transparency, and data access — to watch closely as Musk takes ownership of Twitter.

A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.

Recap of our recent event with academic, policy, and tech experts on how to make social media a safer and more civil place.

Congress should mandate an unprecedented corporate data-sharing program to enable outside, independent researchers to conduct the kinds of analysis on social media platforms that firm insiders routinely perform.

Warning users of the potential consequences of their behavior can temporarily reduce their hateful language.

With access to these documents, scholars could support the media, public, and policymakers in identifying where Facebook’s internal research is conclusive, what inferences can be drawn, which topics require more evidence and future research, and what that research should be.

As the Facebook Papers revelations continue, it’s critical for the government, through legislation or regulation, to require social media platforms to be more transparent and open up more data to outside researchers.

The paper’s findings reveal how misinformation spreads across networks and point to need to improve content-moderation techniques.

We analyzed Twitter discussions around two very different topics and found striking similarities in how political discussions evolve online.

Our research shows that the amount of hate speech on Twitter did not systematically increase during and immediately after the 2016 presidential campaign.

A new book argues academic researchers should have more access to the data locked inside Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

Our research shows protesters are far more connected to each other — via direct and indirect social ties — than are non-protesters.

Our co-director Joshua A. Tucker testified before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

NYU has established the Center for Social Media and Politics, which will examine the production, flow, and impact of social media content in the political sphere, as well as support research that uses social media data to study politics.