Thomas Renault
@thomasrenault.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Economics. University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. #SocialMedia #AI #Misinformation http://www.thomas-renault.com
Would love to read more. Is there a full paper ? Or full version of the poster ? Thx
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Would love to read more. Is there a full paper ? Or full version of the poster ? Thx
With @dgrand.bsky.social and @mmosleh.bsky.social
🔗 Read the Brief Report (Open Access) here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🔗 Read the Brief Report (Open Access) here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
With @dgrand.bsky.social and @mmosleh.bsky.social
🔗 Read the Brief Report (Open Access) here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🔗 Read the Brief Report (Open Access) here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
— We find a real, measurable partisan gap in misinformation sharing : even a “crowdsourced,” supposedly neutral system ends up flagging more Republican posts
— This challenges arguments that fact-checkers should be dismissed on the grounds that they’re too biased.
— This challenges arguments that fact-checkers should be dismissed on the grounds that they’re too biased.
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
— We find a real, measurable partisan gap in misinformation sharing : even a “crowdsourced,” supposedly neutral system ends up flagging more Republican posts
— This challenges arguments that fact-checkers should be dismissed on the grounds that they’re too biased.
— This challenges arguments that fact-checkers should be dismissed on the grounds that they’re too biased.
We analyzed every English Community Note on X over 1.5 years. In Community Notes:
— Users from across the political spectrum propose and rate notes
— Notes are only published when there is agreement between people who typically disagree (via X’s “bridging algorithm”)
— Users from across the political spectrum propose and rate notes
— Notes are only published when there is agreement between people who typically disagree (via X’s “bridging algorithm”)
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We analyzed every English Community Note on X over 1.5 years. In Community Notes:
— Users from across the political spectrum propose and rate notes
— Notes are only published when there is agreement between people who typically disagree (via X’s “bridging algorithm”)
— Users from across the political spectrum propose and rate notes
— Notes are only published when there is agreement between people who typically disagree (via X’s “bridging algorithm”)
💡 Why is this important?
Many past studies have found that Republicans share more misinformation. But critics argue those findings could be driven by :
— Bias in how fact-checkers or academics define misinformation
— Bias in which news stories researchers choose to study
Many past studies have found that Republicans share more misinformation. But critics argue those findings could be driven by :
— Bias in how fact-checkers or academics define misinformation
— Bias in which news stories researchers choose to study
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
💡 Why is this important?
Many past studies have found that Republicans share more misinformation. But critics argue those findings could be driven by :
— Bias in how fact-checkers or academics define misinformation
— Bias in which news stories researchers choose to study
Many past studies have found that Republicans share more misinformation. But critics argue those findings could be driven by :
— Bias in how fact-checkers or academics define misinformation
— Bias in which news stories researchers choose to study
Reposted by Thomas Renault
Many thanks to lead author @thomasrenault.bsky.social who does amazing work on Community Notes and other topics; and the always-wonderful coauthor @mmosleh.bsky.social
For more of my group's work on misinformation, check out this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For more of my group's work on misinformation, check out this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Misinformation-related papers
Papers related to misinformation from David Rand and Gordon Pennycook’s research team Key papers The Psychology of Fake News TiCS 2021 [Tweet thread] [15 minute video summary] Durably reducing conspi...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Many thanks to lead author @thomasrenault.bsky.social who does amazing work on Community Notes and other topics; and the always-wonderful coauthor @mmosleh.bsky.social
For more of my group's work on misinformation, check out this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For more of my group's work on misinformation, check out this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Thomas Renault
We examine all English notes 1/23-6/24. More notes are proposed on tweets written by Reps than Dems. The partisan diff is MUCH bigger when restricting to "helpful" (ie ~unbiased) notes: 63% on Reps, 37% on Dems. The "vox populi" on X has spoken and concluded that Reps share more misinfo than Dems!
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We examine all English notes 1/23-6/24. More notes are proposed on tweets written by Reps than Dems. The partisan diff is MUCH bigger when restricting to "helpful" (ie ~unbiased) notes: 63% on Reps, 37% on Dems. The "vox populi" on X has spoken and concluded that Reps share more misinfo than Dems!
Reposted by Thomas Renault
Accusations of bias against conservatives drove Musk to buy Twitter- then gut fact-checking and up Community Notes. This month, Zuckerberg did the same at Meta. But greater sanctioning of conservatives could just be the result of conservatives sharing more misinformation bsky.app/profile/dgra...
🚨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...
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...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Accusations of bias against conservatives drove Musk to buy Twitter- then gut fact-checking and up Community Notes. This month, Zuckerberg did the same at Meta. But greater sanctioning of conservatives could just be the result of conservatives sharing more misinformation bsky.app/profile/dgra...