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Joshua Tucker
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Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him .. more

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Joshua Tucker was Archdeacon of Barnstaple.

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 5d
www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
Researchers say no evidence of TikTok censorship, but they remain wary
Posts have been going viral on social media accusing TikTok's new owners of suppressing content, but eight academics examined the issue and found no evidence to support the claims.
www.npr.org

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 5d
Media coverage: www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
Researchers say no evidence of TikTok censorship, but they remain wary
Posts have been going viral on social media accusing TikTok's new owners of suppressing content, but eight academics examined the issue and found no evidence to support the claims.
www.npr.org

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 6d
Was TikTok blocking certain political posts last week?

We investigated & found no systematic evidence of political censorship on TT post-restructuring at this point. A server outage better explains the data. But the story isn't over, and platforms need to provide the public more transparency.
solmg.bsky.social Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 6d
Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

Reposted by Joshua A. Tucker, Anne Rasmussen, Christopher Barrie , and 2 more

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London Social Media Observatory @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social · 6d
🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover

➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the...

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Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?
A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.
goodauthority.org

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 6d
Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Joshua A. Tucker, Dave O’Brien , and 9 more

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Offene Stellen / Open Positions
www.ipz.uzh.ch

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 13d
CSMaP is now the Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics (CSMAP). Our research has expanded beyond social media to include digital media more broadly—especially generative AI and large language models and their role in politics and public life.
Learn more at csmapnyu.org
NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics
Strengthening democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
csmapnyu.org

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Reposted by Axel Bruns, Joshua A. Tucker, Charles W. Smith

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Dec 30
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:

- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’

No worries if not!!!

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Dec 19
Is there anyone out there who actually likes the newest version of Overleaf with the comments to the left of the text? And the panel where you now have to toggle between comments and the file tree?

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Dec 18
Check out our newest piece on @goodauth.bsky.social! Especially if you are someone who thinks the left needs a "Joe Rogan of the left". Exciting analysis from our new podcast dataset👇. Huge kudos to project leads @melinamuch.bsky.social & Kylan Rutherford!

Reposted by Joshua A. Tucker, Brendan Nyhan, Jon Green , and 1 more

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Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social · Dec 17
Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · Dec 17
Is Joe Rogan as MAGA as people think?

The Joe Rogan of the left, right, and center is just… Joe Rogan.

See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/podcast...
The Joe Rogan of the left, right, and center is just … Joe Rogan
A new analysis of podcasts shows that Rogan isn't as MAGA as you think.
goodauthority.org

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Dec 1
@jennyallen.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social
add a fantastic Perspective piece on the importance of platform-independent experiments on social media's impact on us: science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Strongly agree!
Platform-independent experiments on social media
Changing algorithms with artificial intelligence tools can influence partisan animosity
science.org

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · Dec 1
As generative AI becomes more accessible, synthetic political images are reshaping how people see and interpret events. One question remains: Do AI labels help the public navigate this environment?

Our new preprint, It Works When It Works, tests exactly that.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Dec 1
New in Science: Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Key from @jennyallen.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social: (1) important new paradigm (2) but not clear why results differ
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · Dec 1
Joint work with @tiziano.bsky.social, @jiachenyan.bsky.social, Jeff Hancock, Jeanne Tsai, @mbernst.bsky.social

Link: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

And a very thoughtful perspective by @jennyallen.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Emil Kamalov @emilkamalov.bsky.social · Nov 21
Two happy updates:
🎓 Defended my PhD at @eui-sps.bsky.social. Grateful to committee @eliasdinas.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner,
@jatucker.bsky.social, and to my supervisor @mgoldenprof.bsky.social!
🇺🇸 Now in Palo Alto, starting my postdoc at Stanford CDDRL
@stanfordcddrl.bsky.social

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Oct 31
So incredibly proud of my immensely talented daughter, who got a short story published!

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WANTED - SASHA TUCKER — Study: The Mole Man
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AAUP @aaup.org · Aug 26
AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns.

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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon
The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.
www.aaup.org

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 26
#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social -

How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in #Ukraine - cup.org/4myrgDM

- @aaronerlich.bsky.social, @kevinaslett.bsky.social, Sarah Graham & @jatucker.bsky.social

#FirstView
Logo of JEPS with the hashtag OpenAccess, featuring large white text on a dark blue background.

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Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social · Aug 13
Fascinating work from @jatucker.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org looking at the effect of labeling images as AI on people’s beliefs about the provenance + veracity of that image. They also explore the implications of AI images not being labeled after seeing labeled images #PaCSS2025 #polnet2025

Reposted by Joshua A. Tucker, Mirya R. Holman

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Aug 11
📣Out on #FirstView 📣

In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility.

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Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker, Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Jul 31
I remember this one too!