🌟 Our 2024 Annual Report is here! 🌟 We’re excited to share the highlights, achievements, and incredible work of our team at the Observatory on Social Media this year. Discover what we've been up to: osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

The three horsemen of social media: brain rot, anxiety and foreign interference voxeurop.eu/en/social-medi…

Nice explanation about our recent paper in PNASNews w/Matthew DeVerna psypost.org/chatgpt-fact-c…

The Community Notes approach can generally be more scalable and robust, yet the current implementation is far from ideal, as Fil Menczer and I argue/show here: cacm.acm.org/opinion/can-cr… Observatory on Social Media

🔊 Don’t miss our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker: Dr. Deen Freelon! 📅 Feb 6, 12 PM ET | 💻 Online 📢 Computational Research in the Post-API Age 🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Don't forget our OSoMe Awesome Speaker Deen Freelon tomorrow!

Don’t miss it!

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

Beware attacker doublespeak. Research on misinformation is not misinformation. Research on censorship is not censorship. Use your right of free speech to defend your right to learn who's trying to deceive you.

"The 'censorship industrial complex' narrative about our center is based on three false claims ... Let’s debunk each claim."

Thrilled to share that I'll be moving to California over the summer to join the SU Social Media Lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. nature.com/articles/s4426…

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/…

🎉 After 8 amazing years, Hoaxy is retiring! Its legacy lives on in OSoMeNet—our new, unified tool for social media research. Thank you for supporting Hoaxy! 🙌 osome.iu.edu/tools/osomenet/

Celebrating Our 2025 PhD Graduates osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

You can now donate to support OSoMe!! osome.iu.edu/about/donate

Russia is churning out fake content posing as US news. Trump has killed the federal agencies tasked with cracking down on this junk, while his people amplify it. politico.com/news/2025/08/1…

The latest CITR report tells the story of how independent tech research is being systematically undermined even as the need for it has never been greater: independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-20…

Antivax disinfo works, sadly. nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…

Deepfake videos impersonating real doctors push false medical advice and treatments. What could possibly go wrong? (This Is why we need both research and policy to fight AI abuse.) cbsnews.com/news/deepfake-…