new yorkers cant not vote for the guy explaining rank choice voting in hindi/urdu 😪

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In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The WS on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up. Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏 🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org

I had an interesting experience yesterday, where my public-facing and scholarly worlds intersected, really collided. There were some fireworks. Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife

And so it begins 😞... www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

Second: Meta seriously weakened its hate speech standards in a way that makes all protected groups generally, and immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people specifically, much more vulnerable to abuse on the site. 🧵 5/11

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

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

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

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

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.

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-...

#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

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

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-...

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...

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

"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>

Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire! Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)

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

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