Angela Lai - NYU’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics

Angela Lai is an applied scientist at Alethea. Prior to this, she was a PhD student in the Center for Data Science at NYU and a Graduate Research Associate at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. Her research interests include natural language processing, network analysis, and political and social behavior and its interaction with social media.

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Working Paper
Evaluating Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Radicalization Pathways on YouTube
- Megan A. Brown,
- James Bisbee,
- Angela Lai,
- Richard Bonneau,
- Jonathan Nagler,
- Joshua A. Tucker
Political Communication, 2026
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Journal Article
Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos
- Angela Lai,
- Megan A. Brown,
- James Bisbee,
- Richard Bonneau,
- Joshua A. Tucker,
- Jonathan Nagler
Political Analysis, 2024
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Analysis
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Ideological Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
- Megan A. Brown,
- Jonathan Nagler,
- James Bisbee,
- Angela Lai,
- Joshua A. Tucker
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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Journal Article
Election Fraud, YouTube, and Public Perception of the Legitimacy of President Biden
- James Bisbee,
- Megan A. Brown,
- Angela Lai,
- Richard Bonneau,
- Joshua A. Tucker,
- Jonathan Nagler
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2022
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Working Paper
Network Embedding Methods for Large Networks in Political Science
- Megan A. Brown,
- Zhanna Terechshenko,
- Rachel Connolly,
- Angela Lai,
- Charlotte Ji,
- Jonathan Nagler,
- Joshua A. Tucker,
- Richard Bonneau
Working Paper, November 2021
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