The Trump administration is working with right-wing influencers to shape the public's understanding of protests against ICE in Portland, Ore. n.pr/478zSdQ

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Research: Believing that the mass public in the opposing party supports undemocratic tactics leads people to be more supportive of undemocratic tactics themselves. Being assured that a majority of your opponents oppose such radical tactics increases support for democratic norms osf.io/my987/download

📅 Only one week to go until APSA 2025!

We’ve prepared a clear and concise visual program for the #PolComm division.

👉 Download the PDF and highlight the sessions you don’t want to miss:

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New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

With "D.C. crime" dominating headlines, my new publication with Dr. Renita Coleman shows that solution-focused framing of urban youth crime coverage reduces support for punitive policies, while boosting hope, raising awareness of social inequality, and increasing support for rehabilitative policies.

In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here’s our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States. buff.ly/8yo3BfO

Latinos aren’t just turning away from the Democrats – they’re becoming more politically disengaged find @derekwakefield.bsky.social of Bucknell University, Bernard L. Fraga of Emory University and Colin Fisk

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

#ICA25 If you are into conspiracies: I'm chairing a @polcomm.bsky.social panel today (6/14 Saturday) at 1:30pm!

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: QITTA-lyzing Hate: Digital Disinhibition, Minority Targeting, and Visual Intolerance - 13-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Capitol 5 (Regency 4).

We analyzed one month of web browsing data from a sample of U.S. adults. Here’s what we learned about how AI appears online. 🧵👇

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Out now: The Fall Issue (Nr. 30) of the Political Communication Report!✨
“What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing”
📖 Full issue: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

A 🧵 on the essays featured in this issue:

The first woman of color to lead a major ticket lost. What will Harris' legacy be?
www.npr.org/2024/11/15/n...

Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package.

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

The South Korean president (also a former prosecutor general) abruptly declared martial law around 10 PM (KST) to counter "anti-state forces." This event is far more than a fleeting six-hour episode—it carries profound historical significance.

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

"People’s ability to evaluate crime relative to the trends has been completely broken. And it’s a new thing, in terms of the level of brokenness."