🚨New WP🚨
We examine news sharing on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 New report out: the first cross-platform, cross-country baseline on misinformation in Europe

Based on large scale data analysis: ~2.6M posts (24B views) collected on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X & YouTube

science.feedback.org/first-measurement-disinformation-major-platforms-europe

Mapping the Scientific Literature on Misinformation Interventions: A Bibliometric Review (COMPASS workshop)
workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php...
@kingcatherine.bsky.social

Excited to have two workshop papers and one main conference paper that I've been involved in being presented at @icwsm.bsky.social! Thanks @kingcatherine.bsky.social and @evanup.bsky.social for letting me tag along. Details below.

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios.

In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Short version: It didn't really work.

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

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. It's not good.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This study examines individual-level interventions against #misinformation on social media, showing that encouraging people to respond to #misinformation can reduce its spread and prevent belief in it.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Needed: ACTION!

"...participants believe individuals should expend more effort responding to misinformation on social media than those individuals report actually doing..."

Study: Online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

🚨New WP🚨
Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers...
osf.io/preprints/ps...

After ending Meta's fact-checking partnerships, Mark Zuckerburg said that it had never been broadly accepted. According to a new poll by @bostonu.bsky.social, nearly 2 in 3 US adults agree that fact-checkers *should* verify claims on social media. A 🧵 (1/n). www.bu.edu/articles/202...

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨
Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong!
We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps:
i) want content moderation
ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers
thehill.com/opinion/tech...

New meta-analysis shows media literacy & psychological inoculation interventions signifcantly & substantially improve (a) misinformation resilience (d = 0.60), (b) misinformation discernment (d = 0.76) and decrease sharing (d = 1.04).

Great news for science!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Removing the fact-checking program from Meta platforms wasn't sufficient, you can now freely claim that women are "houshold objects" and that members of the LGBTQ community are "mentally ill". What a win for free speech - Zuckerberg is revealing his true colors.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

I am making a Societal Computing starter pack for folks that (broadly) look at the impact of computer science on society. So far, mostly people affiliated with the eponymous program in the school of computer science at CMU, but pls respond to this thread if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/2avpExM