Zeve Sanderson
Zeve Sanderson is the founding Executive Director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics. In his role, he helps lead the Center's strategy, operations, and management. His research interests focus on measuring the diffusion and impacts of harmful online speech, as well as empirically testing the efficacy of interventions. He speaks regularly to academic, media, and government audiences, and his writing has appeared in both popular and scholarly outlets. He is writing his dissertation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Related Research & News
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Commentary
White House OSTP Comments on AI
In response to the Biden-Harris Administration's public request for information on mitigating the risks of AI, we submitted comments highlighting the importance of transparent standards for identifying and labeling AI generated content online.
July 7, 2023
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Commentary
Twitter Was Central to American Politics. Musk’s Ownership Puts That at Risk.
Since taking over at Twitter, Elon Musk's personal beliefs have had an outsized influence on the platform. As its content and user base evolve, it's unclear whether a Musk owned Twitter can maintain the platform's central role in the American political media landscape.
May 25, 2023
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Commentary
Feedback on EU Article 40
In response to the European Commission's Digital Services Act, we submitted comments highlighting the importance of data access for independent research and suggested standards for data access mechanisms.
May 23, 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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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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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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Analysis
Gender-Based Online Violence Spikes After Prominent Media Attacks
Our research finds that after a prominent male media personality targets a female journalist, the prevalence of hateful speech targeting those journalists increases in the immediate aftermath, often taking days to decrease.
January 26, 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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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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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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Analysis
Do Twitter Warning Labels Work?
Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Without a hard block, tweets continue to spread — especially tweets by President Trump.
December 9, 2020
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Analysis
How Trump Impacts Harmful Twitter Speech: A Case Study in Three Tweets
We examined three recent tweets from the president and found that harmful speech on Twitter spiked in their immediate aftermath, but soon returned to baseline.
October 22, 2020
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Analysis
It’s Not Easy for Ordinary Citizens to Identify Fake News
In 2020, even small amounts of fake news about the coronavirus can have dire consequences. Unfortunately, it seems quite difficult for people to identify false or misleading news.
April 7, 2020