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I signed this Declaration of the Global Scientific Community and you should too if you are a scientist 🧪 spheraresearch.org/declaration-...

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Romanians confront a deluge of online disinformation ahead of a presidential election rerun apnews.com/article/roma...

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America's fact fight fades www.axios.com/2025/04/22/f...

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No comment www.axios.com/local/indian...

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Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...

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It's pretty simple: misinfo about vaccines kills people. For the more technical explanation, see our recent paper (doi.org/10.1038/s442...) Anti-vaccine advocates battle over narrative in West Texas, downplaying role of measles in deaths www.texastribune.org/2025/04/16/t... via @texastribune.org

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National Science Foundation censors research related to misinformation and disinformation www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...

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Killing both academic research and government watchdogs protecting us from foreign manipulation campaigns apnews.com/article/rubi...

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“What awards are being cut by NSF? Awards that are not aligned with NSF's priorities have been terminated, including […] those on […] misinformation/disinformation." SO WE'RE ALL CLEAR, OUR GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH ON DISINFORMATION www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth. 📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris... 💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...

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Was this a dump and pump ploy? To be followed by another dump play? #SomePeopleHaveTheCards

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Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

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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...

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Faculty Letter Calls for Interuniversity Defense of Higher Education academeblog.org/2025/04/01/f...

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"As we're sure you are aware, under current conditions the protection of due process is of utmost importance to protecting academic freedom...therefore, we ask that you revoke Prof. Wang’s termination & report to the Faculty Council that you've taken these actions." – IU Bloomington AAUP

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This article summarizes the literature (including our research) that debunks claims of "Tech Censorship": Scientists Respond to FTC Inquiry into Tech Censorship www.techpolicy.press/scientists-r...

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📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation. 💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions. 📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE

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Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about Ukraine apnews.com/article/aust...

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I am deeply honored to be named a Fellow of the AAAS. This award belongs to my amazing students, colleagues, and collaborators throughout the years -- thank you all! Congratulations also to my illustrious fellow 2024 Fellows! news.iu.edu/live/news/44...

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Professor @bechamilton.bsky.social argues that the Trump administration's unconstitutional actions against universities, law firms, and media requires collective responses. #Democracy #RuleOfLaw

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A very nice article by the amazing @paulthedogman.bsky.social

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The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

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South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"

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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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When you can only win with disinformation, education becomes a threat.

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AI chatbots infected with Russian disinformation: Study thehill.com/policy/techn...

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Thrilled to share that I'll be moving to California over the summer to join the Stanford Social Media Lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

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We're deeply concerned about the growing number of attacks on academic researchers studying the online landscape. This is a tremendous overview of how this research works and why it matters. We will continue to stand behind our peers and colleagues who come under attack.

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Does generative AI present an unprecedented threat to democracy, as many worried ahead of 2024? Or did it have little impact, as others now claim? The truth is we don't have enough data to draw concrete conclusions. Our latest at @brookings.edu:

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Here is a good speech instead: youtube.com/watch?v=QlrQ...

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if you're watching the trump speech right now and hearing this false rant about social security, it's a good time to read/send this piece from @davidgilbert.bsky.social to people in your life:

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More fuel for the bullshit machine: combing through data they don’t understand, then mischaracterizing it with their “waste and fraud” frame, and using those mischaracterizations to justify the dismantling of government programs that people rely upon to survive.

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Today, House Judiciary Committee conducts a 4th hearing on The Censorship-Industrial Complex. “Complex” = Biden administration, tech platforms, universities, researchers, advocacy groups, advertisers, media… Except the FCC is doing the censoring right now. More: publicknowledge.org/censorship-p...

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

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“After years of yelling that the “Russia hoax” was a witch hunt, Trump is now openly colluding with Vladimir Putin in both narrative and action”, writes @ninajankowicz.com www.thebulwark.com/p/whether-fo...

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A Seattle Times op-ed summarizing a few of the arguments from my UW talk this week: "To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers." I end with some recommendations for countering the right's bullshit machine: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/to-u...

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From the "what could go wrong?" department: As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content by @craigsilverman.bsky.social at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/face...

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Don't miss our final OSoMe Awesome Speaker of the year, @axz.bsky.social from the University of Washington will talk about “Platform Designs and Tools to Support Users in Addressing Misinformation on Social Media” -- details below!

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Accurate satire about content moderation youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo

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