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Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media! 📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02... More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇

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🚨 New Preview of Our Upcoming Report 🚨 Leaked Meta guidelines suggest harmful speech like "Immigrants are filthy pieces of shit" or "Gays are freaks" may soon be allowed. Does this policy shift reflect public opinion? Our survey across 10 countries finds no evidence of support for such content.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Contrary to Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that replacing fact-checkers with "community notes" will enhance free expression, this move does not seem intended to satisfy US users’ supposed craving for a return to Meta’s "free speech roots." The reality is far more nuanced.

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In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @franziskapradel.bsky.social , @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social find that exposure to uncivil or intolerant posts did not lead to majority support for content moderation by platforms. cambridge.org/core/journal...

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📢 We’re hiring! PhD and Postdoc Positions Available! Come join the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich and be part of our Transparency in Content Moderation project, with Molly Roberts & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: Feb 1. portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

🧵The study everyone here is talking about does NOT provide evidence that Twitter/X pushed a pro-Republican home timeline ranking change in July 2023. The cascading, multiplicative effects of ranking changes likely explain the effect--details below

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

@friederikeq.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing co-authored work with Molly Roberts, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, and Sebastian Nagel at @apsa.bsky.social. Join us for our presentations at 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday to talk about content moderation!

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When does toxic speech cross the line? Well, it depends.. Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social's recent APSR article on this here: politicalsciencenow.com/americans-sh...

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Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/1....

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(As one of those devastated) Can’t believe that the NYT are actually writing about this! www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/a...

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I think influencers call this unboxing ✨✨✨

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[New Paper] with @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social & @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social now out in APSR! So happy with this piece which significantly reflects the trajectory of our research agenda at the Chair of Digital Governance! polisky Commsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Come and work with us at the Technical University of Munich! ⏰ Only a few more days until the deadline (January 7) for a postdoctoral researcher position at the Chair of Digital Governance on this new, exciting project: en.bidt.digital/research-pro...

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📢A PhD position within my team related to our ToxicAInment project is available! Come work with us & apply innovative computational methods for substantive research about detecting, quantifying, & mitigating toxic content in (visual) online entertainment: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

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I am thrilled to share that our project with @dianarieger.bsky.social & @cschwem2er.bsky.social "Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment" has received funding from the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation! en.bidt.digital/research-pro...

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I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich. - 3 years - Focus: online toxicity, experiments, causal inference - Deadline: January 7 - Starting: April 2024 polisky Commsky csssky More portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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My book “Repression in the Digital Age” is out tomorrow with OUP! ✨✨✨ You can order it here (and there is a lil' savings code in the picture they sent me 😊): global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 452 days ago • 7 comments

We are hiring a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/post...

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Hugely excited about our workshop on Content Moderation & Free Speech on Social Media starting tomorrow at the TUM @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and I cant wait to welcome an incredible lineup of researchers and people from the policy and tech arena for 2 days of intense discussions! polisky commsky

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Just out with @patyrossini.bsky.social: we analyse how distinctive WhatsApp uses in 🇧🇷 are correlated with exposure to, belief in and engagement with misinfo. The most influential were being part of WP groups with no ties + sharing political content frequently journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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What is the best sampling approach for multilingual texts? In our new paper in Computational Communication Research, we (Sean-Kelly Palicki, Wouter van Atteveldt, Alice Beazer, & Isaac Bravo) find that experts know best www.aup-online.com/content/jour... commsky polcomm polisky PolDataSky

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My book on data management is available #OpenAccess at www.cambridge.org/core/books/d... ! Also, check out the companion webpage at dmbook.org. I hope that the book will be useful for your research and teaching.

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Wildly dangerous to public health if partisanship continues to contaminate opinion on other vaccines. Diseases don't care what party you like www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 516 days ago • 5 comments

“Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach” (with Sven-Oliver Proksch) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science! Paper (PDF): muellerstefan.net/papers/bjps_... polisky cssky 1/5

submitted 516 days ago • 7 comments

Our article Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers is finally out! Please share with your students, and consider add this on your graduate scope and methods class. Also, we appreciate feedback and talk with students about our ideas!

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🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

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