Reports & Analysis

National survey data from the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections shed light on how candidates' campaign strategies impact voter policy recall.

Results from the American Institutional Confidence poll's second wave show that the public's confidence in technology, and tech companies, has markedly decreased over the past five years.

That could affect their votes — and their safety from covid-19.

Republican candidates have dramatically increased how much they share from unreliable sources in just two years.

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. 

She’s gaining followers and ‘likes’ on other social media platforms, our research finds.

Twitter’s decision to deactivate trending topics in Ethiopia did not reduce the volume or toxicity of tweets about the civil war.

Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often, which may explain why they’re in your timeline.

Those who dislike Democrats and don’t mind white nationalists. That includes plenty of Republicans with college educations.

This explains how social media can both weaken — and strengthen — democracy. Groups opposed to fundamental tenets of liberal democracy also have found their megaphone.

Taking Twitter data, we want to better understand which issues matter most to voters in the Georgia Senate election. We find that voters pick up on topics mentioned in attack ads and that voters tend to not view this as a national election.

Continuing previous work, we find that politically motivated popular users have the most influence in online discussions around Black Lives Matter and Common Core State Standards.

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.

To better understand how an issue becomes politicized over time, we examine Black Lives Matter and Common Core State Standards and track how they evolved over time.

As the largest Democratic primary field in modern history continues to narrow, we wanted to examine how the debates drove the conversation online, and specifically how voters changed their opinions over time.

Last week, Taylor Swift endorsed two candidates on Instagram, speaking to a group that could use encouragement: young people, who often fail to vote in midterm elections.

Although ISIS continues to spread its message through social media, our data suggests that pro-ISIS communication is met by a much larger amount of anti-ISIS content.

To better understand how social media is used in a protest setting, we collect data from the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine and find that social media provides a space to share information, as well as mobilize offline organization.

Our analysis of Twitter and Facebook data suggests that social media continues to be a pivotal organization tool for those in Kiev and also the most relevant mechanism for disseminating and exchanging information both within Ukraine and abroad.

Social media continues to play an important role in the protests in Ukraine. As the situation changes, social media users are adapting their strategies online to meet shifting needs as they emerge on the ground.

We collected tweets mentioning the most common Twitter hashtags and available Facebook data of the Kiev protest since the morning of November 25, and found that Ukrainian social media users are strategically using the tools available to them to organize and spread information about the protests.

To better understand the effects of collective action and protest organization, we analyze 22 million tweets related to Turkish protests. We find that online activity has a spillover effect into offline action.

This trend suggests that Turkish protesters are replacing the traditional reporting with crowd-sourced accounts of the protest expressed through social media.