Joshua A. Tucker
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Commentary
Globally, Russia May Actually Not Be Losing the Information War
In the modern digital information era, information wars are always global.
February 24, 2023
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Journal Article
Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency Foreign Influence Campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US Election and Its Relationship to Attitudes and Voting Behavior
Nature Communications, 2023
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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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Working Paper
Social Media, Information, and Politics: Insights on Latinos in the U.S.
Working Paper, November 2022
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Journal Article
Dictionary-Assisted Supervised Contrastive Learning
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
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Journal Article
Using Social Media Data to Reveal Patterns of Policy Engagement in State Legislatures
State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 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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Working Paper
Evaluating Expectations from Social and Behavioral Science about COVID-19 and Lessons for the Next Pandemic
Working Paper, October 2022
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Journal Article
Most Users Do Not Follow Political Elites on Twitter; Those Who Do, Show Overwhelming Preferences for Ideological Congruity.
Science Advances, 2022
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Journal Article
Election Fraud, YouTube, and Public Perception of the Legitimacy of President Biden
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 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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Journal Article
What We Learned About The Gateway Pundit from its Own Web Traffic Data
Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022
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Working Paper
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
Working Paper, May 2022
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Journal Article
News Credibility Labels Have Limited Average Effects on News Diet Quality and Fail to Reduce Misperceptions
Science Advances, 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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Working Paper
Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos
Working Paper, May 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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Working Paper
To Moderate, Or Not to Moderate: Strategic Domain Sharing by Congressional Campaigns
Working Paper, April 2022