🧴☀️ IIID Affiliate, Briony Swire-Thompson in latest @washingtonpost.com piece, discussing sunscreen misinformation spreading on TikTok. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Remember when I said this? I was fresh off recording an episode of MAIHT3K with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social, during which we analyzed (and mocked!) Bernie's descent into AI doomerism. peertube.dair-institute.org/w/jV5u1DVL4b... or wherever your get your podcasts.

🔬 AI's use and any casual relationship with adverse mental health consequences is explored by IIID Principal Investigator David Lazer and colleagues, in the BMJ Mental Health journal: mentalhealth.bmj.com/pages/about

New in Scientific Reports: a study of 13,018 elite football matches across 10 leagues reveals rising passing intensity, tighter passing structures, and rapid evolution in women’s & men's game. Built during a 72h Complexity Workshop. ⚽📈https://tinyurl.com/ze7eh97c

Half of online time goes to two activities: social media (25%) and email (25%). LLM tools (ChatGPT, Gemini) now account for 2.9% of all online time. News sites get 2.5%. AI is already a bigger share of attention than news. For adults 18-29 the gap widens: LLMs 5.1%, news 1.1%.

Congratulations to the IIID team who produced this latest research on how Americans spend their time online. Read it here: www.nuinfoinstitute.org/publications...

"... too many tech policy professionals are still ... evaluating policy proposals independently of the broader context of President Donald Trump’s— and Silicon Valley’s—assault on democracy." IID's Policy Director @nathaliemarechal.net for Tech Policy Press 👇 www.techpolicy.press/tech-policy-...

IIID's Policy Director @nathaliemarechal.net on "A flawed fix for social media’s harms" for @bostonglobe.com 👇 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...

If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

Based on their research, David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón anticipate that Meta's elimination of penalties for sharing misinformation will cause a flood from some Pages– which are still the most effective means to spread content on Facebook.

New report out from IDI and CHIP50--TikTok in a time of peril: American usage patterns and demographic trends www.chip50.org/reports/tikt... #tiktok #bytedance #tiktokban