Ozan Kuru
@ozankuru.bsky.social
Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
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Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
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Ozan Kuru
@ozankuru.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Are misinformation interventions different or fundamentally the same?
The growing field of misinformation research has spawned numerous conflicting interventions aimed at minimising its impact. Ozan Kuru argues that by taking a critical perspective on these intervent…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Excited to share this publication @lseimpactblog.bsky.social covering+expanding the arguments from my recent research: Why we need more “critical coordination” in interventions against misinformation – also with implications for intervention science at large. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
New study on communicative dynamics in relative risk scenarios in health decision making, forthcoming in Health Communication, Yuanyuan Wu & Ozan Kuru
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 AM
New study on communicative dynamics in relative risk scenarios in health decision making, forthcoming in Health Communication, Yuanyuan Wu & Ozan Kuru
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Very specific to certain medical research, yet also a warning about other vulnerable areas
"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
AI-generated data contamination erodes pathological variability and diagnostic reliability
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop where future models are increasingly at risk of training on uncurated AI ...
www.medrxiv.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Very specific to certain medical research, yet also a warning about other vulnerable areas
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Characteristically thoughtful discussion of a known snag of survey research -- people who care a lot about politics are more likely to take political polls -- and what we might be able to do to address that
(As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)
(As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)
Hello super friends.
There is a new @crosstabspodcast.com
It features a cool experiment in talking to non-political voters by @kabirkhanna.bsky.social at @cbsnews.com
He's super smart. You should listen to him.
Hey, did you know it's an election year?? Again??!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
There is a new @crosstabspodcast.com
It features a cool experiment in talking to non-political voters by @kabirkhanna.bsky.social at @cbsnews.com
He's super smart. You should listen to him.
Hey, did you know it's an election year?? Again??!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Talking Politics With People Who Don't Want to, with Kabir Khanna of CBS News
Podcast Episode · Cross Tabs · 01/29/2026 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Characteristically thoughtful discussion of a known snag of survey research -- people who care a lot about politics are more likely to take political polls -- and what we might be able to do to address that
(As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)
(As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)
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Our BPP paper on government shutdowns, need for chaos, and prospect theory (w/ Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, Matt Hitt, and me). Here's the abstract and link for "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 29, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Our BPP paper on government shutdowns, need for chaos, and prospect theory (w/ Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, Matt Hitt, and me). Here's the abstract and link for "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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I wrote about our recent paper for @uk.theconversation.com
"...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them."
theconversation.com/why-some-peo...
"...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them."
theconversation.com/why-some-peo...
Why some people speak up against prejudice, while others do not
Repeated exposure to discrimination increased the likelihood of aggressive confrontation.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I wrote about our recent paper for @uk.theconversation.com
"...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them."
theconversation.com/why-some-peo...
"...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them."
theconversation.com/why-some-peo...
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How does information on public opinion on environmental issues shape citizens' opinions? Out and open access with @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, and @jasonreifler.bsky.social + others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Information on public opinion has lasting effects on second-order climate beliefs, but minimal and ephemeral effects on first-order beliefs
Across western democracies, pro-climate beliefs are widespread. Yet, vocal minorities contest scientific consensus about global warming. Perhaps as a …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
How does information on public opinion on environmental issues shape citizens' opinions? Out and open access with @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, and @jasonreifler.bsky.social + others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social
We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3)
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3)
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
January 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM
New real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social
We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3)
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3)
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
"A central insight from our study was that the question of what purpose a review should pursue depended critically on the status of knowledge in a field. Ultimately, we succeeded in mapping the different purposes onto four main directions a review can progress a field of research (Fig.1)"
💥New | Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you?
✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social
#AcWri #SocialScience #LitReviews
✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social
#AcWri #SocialScience #LitReviews
Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you? - LSE Impact
The potential for AI tool to assess and organise research literature presents an opportunity to rethink why they are undertaken in the first place.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM
"A central insight from our study was that the question of what purpose a review should pursue depended critically on the status of knowledge in a field. Ultimately, we succeeded in mapping the different purposes onto four main directions a review can progress a field of research (Fig.1)"
“Why do both economically advantaged and disadvantaged voters sometimes converge in their support for conservative parties? ... Because inequality is inherently relational, its political implications arise not only from the objective distribution of resources but from ... themselves and others"
#OpenAccess -
Between the ladder and the mirror: subjective class consciousness and voting under inequality in South Korea - https://cup.org/4jZqb7L
- Seungwoo Han (Kyonggi University)
#FirstView
Between the ladder and the mirror: subjective class consciousness and voting under inequality in South Korea - https://cup.org/4jZqb7L
- Seungwoo Han (Kyonggi University)
#FirstView
January 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
“Why do both economically advantaged and disadvantaged voters sometimes converge in their support for conservative parties? ... Because inequality is inherently relational, its political implications arise not only from the objective distribution of resources but from ... themselves and others"
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People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.
The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism
The United States continues to evade scrutiny as a place that actively represses, expels, and rules over subsets of its population. This oversight has foreclosed investigation into the empirical relat...
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.
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There's a type of survey that is fueling talk of a young adult religious revival in the UK & the US.
You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion.
Read more:
You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion.
Read more:
Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading
Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.
www.pewresearch.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
There's a type of survey that is fueling talk of a young adult religious revival in the UK & the US.
You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion.
Read more:
You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion.
Read more:
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There’s a lot of discussion about what is meant to distract from what in the current news environment.
This is the wrong way to think about things; Donald Trump’s modus has always been to constantly redirect attention so that nothing becomes “the big story.”
That was the big lesson of our book.
This is the wrong way to think about things; Donald Trump’s modus has always been to constantly redirect attention so that nothing becomes “the big story.”
That was the big lesson of our book.
Words That Matter | Brookings
How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidency The 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did everything possible to reinf...
www.brookings.edu
January 25, 2026 at 6:03 AM
There’s a lot of discussion about what is meant to distract from what in the current news environment.
This is the wrong way to think about things; Donald Trump’s modus has always been to constantly redirect attention so that nothing becomes “the big story.”
That was the big lesson of our book.
This is the wrong way to think about things; Donald Trump’s modus has always been to constantly redirect attention so that nothing becomes “the big story.”
That was the big lesson of our book.
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🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.
New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.
👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.
👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 AM
🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.
New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.
👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.
👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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New party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
Backlash to Trump has been higher in his second term
Gallup's latest data shows Republican party identification down 6 points in Trump's second term — three times the decline in 2017
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
New party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
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Pub Alert! Introducing new JoC publication: “Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health”, by Rong Ma, @zxma.bsky.social Callie Kalny, Nathan Walter. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
January 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Pub Alert! Introducing new JoC publication: “Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health”, by Rong Ma, @zxma.bsky.social Callie Kalny, Nathan Walter. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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Does news about a more diverse Congress change how Americans see democracy?
In POQ, Olson et al. find that diversity boosts Democrats’ trust in Congress, has no effect on Republicans, and does not weaken support for democratic norms.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Olson et al. find that diversity boosts Democrats’ trust in Congress, has no effect on Republicans, and does not weaken support for democratic norms.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
January 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Does news about a more diverse Congress change how Americans see democracy?
In POQ, Olson et al. find that diversity boosts Democrats’ trust in Congress, has no effect on Republicans, and does not weaken support for democratic norms.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Olson et al. find that diversity boosts Democrats’ trust in Congress, has no effect on Republicans, and does not weaken support for democratic norms.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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"Transparency" is utilised to avoid ethical discussions around genAI. The ppl pushing for it have a very particular idea of what science is & how it is done. It is specially concerning that universities & other institutions fail to see the wider context of this fascist technical apparatus. #ResistAI
January 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"Transparency" is utilised to avoid ethical discussions around genAI. The ppl pushing for it have a very particular idea of what science is & how it is done. It is specially concerning that universities & other institutions fail to see the wider context of this fascist technical apparatus. #ResistAI
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ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries: The Role of Social Class and Interest in News
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of inequalities in online and offline news media systems across a strategic sample of six countries. Using survey data from 10 annual Digital News...
www.tandfonline.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right | CNN Politics
In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines an...
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
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New survey: As measles cases rise, the public's views of the MMR vaccine's safety and effectiveness -- and a willingness to recommend it -- have dropped. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c...
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New survey: As measles cases rise, the public's views of the MMR vaccine's safety and effectiveness -- and a willingness to recommend it -- have dropped. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c...
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"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.