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New paper on how a massive bot campaign is currently in action in Twitter/X to undermine the current german election... Spoiler : They better than the russian bots, and they're not afraid to spam 1000 tweets by day with IA help. PDF in english here (Canva link) : www.canva.com/design/DAGer...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

We took X to court. And we won! ⚖️ The courts ruled that X must urgently grant us access to their publicly available data via their API. This access is critical for our analysis of online public discourse ahead of the upcoming German elections. Read: bit.ly/4gBWGp4 Here's what's happened 1/3 👇

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

🚨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...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Here's a peek at what our @gruzd.ca & @philipmai.com have been working on this weekend: cn.deepfakestracker.org It's a new dashboard for tracking media on X that have been labelled as "misleading or manipulated" by Community Notes members. More info later this week.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

PSA: Bluesky is a public social network, like a blog. Posts are visible to anyone online. Built on the AT Protocol, it supports PUBLIC, portable conversations by storing data in accessible repositories.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

[Breaking] Two Republican supporters of the TikTok ban in the Senate, Senator Cotton and Senator Ricketts, cast doubt on the notion that Trump will swiftly reinstate the app.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

My first reaction to the #tiktokban.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

A sad tendency of many sci reform efforts is that instead of promoting transparency, certain research practices are just devalued entirely. Examples: 1. Exploratory research. Should be labelled as such but still valuable. 2. Correlative evidence. Does not establish causality but still valuable.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

The "Free Our Feeds" campaign aims to protect social media from billionaire control by establishing a public-interest foundation. The initiative aims to ensure that the AT Protocol, the underlying technology of Bluesky, remains open and accessible to all.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

I feel similar about social media btw Some of the posts on here (and elsewhere)... It's like road rage. Try reading them to yourself a week later, or better yet to a friend. In clearing out my Twitter account I saw some stuff from 'old me' that had these vibes, it's embarrassing!

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Dear Tech Companies, No. We don't want "A.I." anything. We don't want A.I. social media "friends." We don't want A.I.-generated news reporters or anchors. We don't want A.I. to curate our music or make our movies. We REALLY don't want A.I. put in charge of our insurance claims or kids' education.

submitted 47 days ago • 171 comments

There's been a lot of discussion around Meta's decision to replace #factcheckers with #communitynotes in the US. Here's an attempted analysis on the consequences of this decision from a research angle. I am pushing back against some of the more pessimistic takes. 🧵

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

One of the reason I prefer Bluesky to X (as well as Threads/Facebook/LinkedIN) is simply because my newsfeed isn't controlled by an engagement-driven algorithm This reduces the incentives for gaming the algorithm with clickbait, conflict entreprenuers, etc. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

For folks using #Prolific, is there an option to report participants providing low-quality data? I prefer not to reject submissions. I wish there was a way to log low quality submissions and if enough people reported same participant they'd get booted from the platform

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Meanwhile, Meta is preparing to launch bot profiles en masse on purpose. #platformdifferences www.ft.com/content/9118...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Textual features in the content that people post (e.g., anger-related words) help predict who is likely to share fake-news (versus, e.g., random or matched users). Matches my intuition, and other recent research showing the dark side of online outrage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

The word of the year is “brain rot” These days, it’s invoked by young people on social media to describe the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,” particularly stemming from overconsumption of trivial online content. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

A couple years ago, I founded a charity association: EDUCAT Germany e.V. Our goal is to support education projects in the Global South. 2024, we were able to co-fund the expansion of a community center in Buenos Aires, that will benefit 122 teenagers and children. www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/u...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research don't meet basic standards of reproducibility...

submitted 71 days ago • 18 comments

1) Random feed reduces toxic content 2) But also reduces platform use 3) And users more likely to share toxic content, mitigating the drop 4) And users with more interest seek it out/switch platforms Yeah, we might not be well equipped to deal with social media

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

In my experience, ChatGPT did a lot better generating code in JS and Python than in R. I guess this has sth to do with training data. Anyone aware of tools that do better at writing R?

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

"Politically neutral scientists are viewed as the most credible. [...] there is a monotonic penalty for scientists displaying political affiliations: the stronger their posts, the less credible their profile and research are perceived"

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I'm compiling types of manipulations in psychology: 1) Vignette study 2) Autobiographical ("Remember a time you ...") 3) Confederate acts some way 4) Watch video inducing emotion 5) Behavioral instruction ("talk to a stranger") 6) Prime a construct 7) Framing outcomes To contribute, reply

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

🌍 Grüezi from Zürich! 🍫 🏔️ Today I had the pleasure to present my research at the brownbag seminar of the Technology Marketing Chair of ETH Zurich. Great to get feedback on our project and looking forward to continuing conversations. Thanks for the invitation!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Will be visiting ETH Zurich tomorrow – let me know if you are around and want to grab a coffee!! ☕

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Data Viz Question: Say I have a hierarchical dataset with multiple observations (e.g. trials) from multiple individuals. I want to visualise the "average" individual distribution; i.e., how a typical distribution of all the observations by one individual looks like. What would you do here?

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment