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Twitter’s Transparency Theater
Elon Musk has said that increasing transparency on Twitter is one of his highest priorities, but his actions show otherwise.
April 18, 2023
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Dr. Solomon Messing Joins CSMaP as Research Associate Professor
As a leader in applied data science with high-level experience across Twitter, Meta, and Pew, Messing will leverage his strong technical background and deep knowledge of the platforms to expand CSMaP’s research capacity.
January 31, 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Launching Multilingual Research Project Studying Election Disinformation
Craig Newmark Philanthropies donates $350,000 to fund new multilingual research on the types of disinformation communities are exposed to during elections.
September 13, 2021
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Despite Warning Labels, Trump’s Election Misinformation Tweets Spread Widely Across Social Media Platforms, New Study Finds
The paper’s findings reveal how misinformation spreads across networks and point to need to improve content-moderation techniques.
August 24, 2021
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Our Craig Newmark Philanthropies Graduate Students
In 2020, Craig Newmark Philanthropies donated $400,000 to support our PhD students, ensuring they could continue their research projects examining some of the biggest questions at the intersection of social media and democracy. Here is an update on what they've been working on this past year thanks to Craig's generous support.
July 1, 2021
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Influential Users in the Common Core and Black Lives Matter Social Media Conversation
We analyzed Twitter discussions around two very different topics and found striking similarities in how political discussions evolve online.
June 30, 2021
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How Do Social Media Influence Ethnic Polarization?
Those who deactivated their Facebook profiles report a lower regard for other ethnic groups, shows a new study of users in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
June 14, 2021
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Did Hate Speech on Twitter Rise During and After Trump’s 2016 Election Campaign?
Our research shows that the amount of hate speech on Twitter did not systematically increase during and immediately after the 2016 presidential campaign.
June 9, 2021
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Does What We Know About Fake News Hold Up in a Pandemic?
Joshua A. Tucker discusses the future of social media research as false information about COVID-19 spreads alongside the disease itself.
January 12, 2021
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Why We Desperately Need More Research on Social Media’s Effects on Democracy
A new book argues academic researchers should have more access to the data locked inside Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.
January 12, 2021
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Text Classification Using a Transformer-Based Model
We're committed to supporting open and accessible science, which includes promoting the creation and use of open-source software, providing high-quality replication materials for our publications, and contributing to existing open-source tools and frameworks. To do so, we created an open-source tool to make using transformers easier and explain how to use it here.
December 8, 2020
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We Analyzed Public Discussion of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments. Here’s What We Found.
Tweets mentioning hydroxychloroquine peaked when President Trump touted the drug — without evidence — as a cure to the disease.
July 15, 2020
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CSMaP Awarded National Science Foundation COVID-19 RAPID Grant
With the support of an NSF Grant, we’re studying susceptibility to false and misleading news around COVID-19.
June 25, 2020
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You’re More Likely to Protest if Your Friends Are Protesting, Too
Our research shows protesters are far more connected to each other — via direct and indirect social ties — than are non-protesters.
June 24, 2020
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