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Exposure to Russian Twitter Campaigns in 2016 Presidential Race Highly Concentrated, Largely Limited to Strongly Partisan Republicans
New study shows online push by foreign disinformation accounts didn’t change attitudes or voting behavior — but the disinformation effort may still have had consequences.
January 9, 2023
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2022 Year in Review: Our Research & Impact
A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.
December 19, 2022
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Siegel Family Endowment Renews Support for CSMaP Research
The grant will help us conduct cutting-edge research and advance evidence-based public policy. It also supports research from Tiago Ventura, a CSMaP postdoc who will join the latest cohort of Siegel Research Fellows.
November 16, 2022
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Commentary
Musk’s Twitter Shake-Up Could Deliver a Critical Blow to Social Media Research
We still don’t know the extent of what Musk has actually changed within Twitter. But without mandated data access for researchers, we risk never knowing their impact on society as well.
November 9, 2022
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Analysis
Latinos Who Use Spanish-Language Social Media Get More Misinformation
That could affect their votes — and their safety from covid-19.
November 8, 2022
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Analysis
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Ideological Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
We find that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm does not lead the vast majority of users down extremist rabbit holes, although it does push users into increasingly narrow ideological ranges of content in what we might call evidence of a (very) mild ideological echo chamber.
October 13, 2022
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CSMaP Wins 2022 APSA Award
Our scholars won Best Article in the Information Technology and Politics Section.
September 20, 2022
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YouTube More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical about 2020 Election’s Legitimacy
New study shows how site’s algorithms perpetuate existing misperceptions.
September 1, 2022
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Analysis
Republicans Are Increasingly Sharing Misinformation
Republican candidates have dramatically increased how much they share from unreliable sources in just two years.
August 29, 2022
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Commentary
Big Tech Must Step Up Now to Fight Misinformation in the Midterms
As 2022 candidates embrace Trump's Big Lie, social platforms are reducing election integrity efforts. What should they do to safeguard the midterms?
July 10, 2022
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Does Presenting Credibility Labels of Journalistic Sources Affect News Consumption? New Study Finds Limited Effects
On average, source credibility labels don’t change whether someone reads low-quality news sources — but it does appear to improve the news diet quality of the heaviest consumers of misinformation.
May 6, 2022
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Commentary
The Social Media Data We Need to Answer Key Research Questions
Ahead of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on platform transparency, we submitted a letter outlining the type of research questions we want to answer — and the social media data we need to answer them.
May 4, 2022
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Commentary
How to Evaluate Elon Musk’s (Potential) Impact On Twitter
There are three areas — content moderation, transparency, and data access — to watch closely as Musk takes ownership of Twitter.
April 26, 2022
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Commentary
The People Who Believe Russia’s Disinformation
Will Russia’s propaganda campaign continue to work on its citizens and others? Or will the lies fall apart?
April 12, 2022
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How Pro-Regime Bots are Used in Russia to Demobilize Opposition and Manipulate Public Perception
In a new paper, we investigate how pro-regime bots employ a variety of tactics to prevent, suppress, or react to offline and online opposition activities in Russia, finding online activities produce stronger reactions than offline protests.
February 21, 2022
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Analysis
Gender-Based Online Violence Spikes After Prominent Media Attacks
Our research finds that after a prominent male media personality targets a female journalist, the prevalence of hateful speech targeting those journalists increases in the immediate aftermath, often taking days to decrease.
January 26, 2022
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Analysis
Twitter Banned Marjorie Taylor Greene. That May Not Hurt Her Much.
She’s gaining followers and ‘likes’ on other social media platforms, our research finds.
January 14, 2022
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Analysis
Trendless Fluctuation? How Twitter’s Ethiopia Interventions May (Not) Have Worked
Twitter’s decision to deactivate trending topics in Ethiopia did not reduce the volume or toxicity of tweets about the civil war.
January 11, 2022
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2021 Year in Review: Our Research & Impact
A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.
January 5, 2022
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A Conversation About Reducing Harm on Social Media
Recap of our recent event with academic, policy, and tech experts on how to make social media a safer and more civil place.
December 20, 2021
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Commentary
A Modest Ox: Examining Two Approaches to Testing Crowdsourced Fact Checking
Crowdsourced fact-checking, far from being a panacea to our so-called information disorder, could potentially be one tool in what certainly needs to be a much larger toolkit to discern facts in a complex ecosystem.
December 10, 2021
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Analysis
How to Fix Social Media? Start with Independent Research.
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.
December 1, 2021
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Warnings May Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter, New Study Finds
Warning users of the potential consequences of their behavior can temporarily reduce their hateful language.
November 22, 2021
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Commentary
Academic Researchers Need Access to the Facebook Papers
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.
November 4, 2021
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New Study: Can Ordinary Users Effectively Fact Check Fake News in Real Time?
Social media companies have suggested using ordinary users to assess the veracity of news articles and combat misinformation, but a new paper finds this is likely not a viable solution.
October 28, 2021