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chidiya.bsky.social
Economics PhD candidate at Brown || Digital Economies/ Development/ Political Economy || Cofounded Bahujan Economists || https://aarushirita.github.io/
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And so it begins 😞... www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Is the pattern in TikTok blackouts... Ugh... Random?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This article should be required reading for anyone commenting on the political effects of social media.

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising. We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't. www.nber.org/papers/w32846

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits

submitted 65 days ago • 71 comments

Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI. Who else should be on this list? bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

could not have written this post better myself: really appreciate it, @rajivsethi.bsky.social! As correctly pointed out, the hard question is whether diversification provides a way to moderate without censoring: the model-based counterfactuals show that partial diversification could be the answer.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure: www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

#eeac Day 12: @chidiya.bsky.social JMP "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Online Behavior” switches from algorithmic feed to random content on Indian TikTok-like platform. Great summary of findings here www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-... #econsky #econjmp

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government. A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.

submitted 83 days ago • 1491 comments

Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog! So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

submitted 94 days ago • 383 comments

The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

"By allowing people to mute content in fine-tuned and personalized ways, it reduces the incentive to mute people." A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers. <shameless plug for JMP>

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Massive experiment on India’s TikTok-like platform: Replacing personalized algorithms with randomized content reduced hate speech by 27%—but led to a 35% drop in platform usage. Toxic users adapted by sharing hate at higher rates. #econsky

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Great interview on Ideas for India Aarushi Kalra about her fascinating JMP. www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments