New study out in Nature Human Behaviour: 37 million US users were exposed to deceptive networks on Facebook & 3 million on Instagram during the 2020 elections—roughly 15% and 2% of active users. 🧵

In communities across the country, we’re hearing from everyday people that they are hungry for a new way to connect with neighbors online. Our team at New_ Public, a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces, is creating Roundabout, a new social app and website, now in closed beta. 🧵

We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead. These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities. Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data

The Trust Project’s trust indicators positively affect how people perceive the news. Delighted to have worked with Alex Curry and Sally Lehrman on this project.

A BERT classifier outperformed a GPT classifier in detecting connective language on social media, finds @jolukito.bsky.social, Chen, @ginammasullo.bsky.social, @taliastroud.bsky.social, with an analysis on how connective language relates to other types of language aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

Partnering ~~with~~ audiences to figure out how to be **listen-worthy** is critical. Thanks @niemanlab.org for the opportunity to share some thoughts!

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

Political Psychology books published in the last year? Send them my way! The Juliette & Alexander George Book Award is given for the best book published in the field of political psychology during the previous calendar year (see www.ispp.org/awards/george).

members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣NEW from In Reality! @taliastroud.bsky.social & Eric Schurenberg discuss: medical misinfo, how newsrooms inadvertently feed polarization, why a popular silver bullet solution to algorithmic polarization won’t work, & bringing audiences & newsrooms closer together. www.in-reality.fm/who-killed-t...

Local news is on the decline 📰 📉 But what could save it? New field experiment with news sites by @taliastroud.bsky.social & @emilyvanduyn.bsky.social finds that engaged journalism initiatives can increase subscriptions and audience engagement. doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad018

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Full tweet thread summarizing our findings here https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1684631397443489793?s=20

Fun to talk with Mike Pesca on The Gist about our new study of like-minded sources on Facebook (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w) & our new Bright Line Watch report on the cases against Trump (https://tinyurl.com/trump-cases) https://open.spotify.com/episode/7paD9951E3iFhQUBgSNTFd

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Four landmark studies from a collaboration between Meta and researchers. A summary of the results: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/meta-facebook-political-polarization-studies/674841/