Joshua A. Tucker
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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
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Journal Article
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia
American Political Science Review, 2022
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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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Journal Article
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences
Political Communication, 2021
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Journal Article
Short of Suspension: How Suspension Warnings Can Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter
Perspectives on Politics, 2021
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Working Paper
Network Embedding Methods for Large Networks in Political Science
Working Paper, November 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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Journal Article
Moderating with the Mob: Evaluating the Efficacy of Real-Time Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2021
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Analysis
Twitter Amplifies Conservative Politicians. Is it Because Users Mock Them?
Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often, which may explain why they’re in your timeline.
October 27, 2021
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Commentary
Facebook, Open Your Data Trove
As the Facebook Papers revelations continue, it’s critical for the government, through legislation or regulation, to require social media platforms to be more transparent and open up more data to outside researchers.
October 5, 2021
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Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2 RNA Concentrations in Wastewater Foreshadow Dynamics and Clinical Presentation of New COVID-19 Cases
Science of the Total Environment, 2022
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Journal Article
Twitter Flagged Donald Trump’s Tweets with Election Misinformation: They Continued to Spread Both On and Off the Platform
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 2021
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Testing the Effects of Facebook Usage in an Ethnically Polarized Setting
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
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Accessibility and Generalizability: Are Social Media Effects Moderated by Age or Digital Literacy?
Research & Politics, 2021
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Cracking Open the News Feed: Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
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The Times They Are Rarely A-Changin': Circadian Regularities in Social Media Use
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
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YouTube Recommendations and Effects on Sharing Across Online Social Platforms
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021