🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Join our team studying the impact of digital media on democracy! We're hiring a Technical Lead - Research Engineering to help us build/maintain the robust data infrastructure & custom tools that power our research. More info: apply.interfolio.com/165833

Cult of personality watch. These are not the habits of a democratic movement.

Maintenance is finally complete! Botometer X and the rest of our tools are functioning properly again! 🎉

Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

New paper: Language models have “universal” concept representation – but can they capture cultural nuance? 🌏 If someone from Japan asks an LLM what color a pumpkin is, will it correctly say green (as they are in Japan)? Or does cultural nuance require more than just language?

Really excited to share that I'll be joining UC Berkeley in the fall to begin my PhD in political science! Looking forward to this move across the Bay and the start of a new chapter.

I'm happy to share that this paper, "Misinformation Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Deactivation Experiment in Brazil," is now conditionally accepted by The Journal of Politics (Journal of Politics @[email protected]) 🥳 Final pre-print version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨New paper out in PNASNews ! Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom! 💥👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network. 📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/rise_… 💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/150660…

NEW WORKING PAPER Many people warn that LLMs pose threats to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. How should we evaluate these claims? In this project, we discuss limitations of existing evaluations and present our own framework (1/6)

Check out our new work 👇

Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data: 🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts 🔎Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts 🌎OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we entered what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality. 1/2

We document the researchers' desired data access and provide recommendations for platforms, researchers, and policymakers. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877 Podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d33a3… With the amamzing Kayo Mimizuka, Megan A. Brown, and Jo(sephine) Lukito 3/3

Seems very bad but it's time to put up the bat signal

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Test of time honorable mention and award at #ICWSM 2025 🏆

Best paper award and honorable mentions 🏆 Congrats to all authors! #icwsm

Well deserved—congrats!

I'm so happy that our work, "Does Content Moderation Lead Users Away from Fringe Movements? Evidence from a Recovery Community," got the Honorable Mention award at ICWSM! 🏆📷 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…