Alex Siegel and Joshua A Tucker
July 20, 2016
As Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent pundits scrambling and the pound plummeting, it also set off a global frenzy on social media. Topping off months of online campaigning…
Alex Siegel
January 7, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric on Jan. 2 sparked a sectarian firestorm across the Arab world. Protests erupted, a Saudi…
Alex Siegel
December 4, 2015
Polls have closed, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has emerged, unsurprisingly, as the true victor in Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2012…
Andy Guess, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A Tucker
November 12, 2015
Did John Kasich’s “grown up” strategy work in Wednesday’s debate? And could moderate Republicans be warming to Rand Paul? To answer these and other question, the New York University Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab analyzed 426,717 tweets from…
Kevin Munger
July 24, 2015
Megan Metzger
December 11, 2013
As we enter our nation’s next presidential election cycle, we will be compelled once again to reexamine the new, disturbing terms of engagement regarding the dissemination of information and misinformation…
Pablo Barbera and Megan Metzger
December 4, 2013
In Ukraine, protesters are coordinating on Facebook and signing up for Twitter accounts, perhaps with an eye towards increasing international…
Pablo Barbera and Megan Metzger
June 3, 2013