📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at the University of Michigan! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢 Application deadline: Dec 15 cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

My work was featured in the MIT News today! Read more on empowering users to assess the accuracy of content and see assessments from their trusted sources everywhere on the web: news.mit.edu/2024/new-too...

🚨 Paper alert!🚨 We show how enabling users to moderate misinformation can be deployed everywhere on the web, in a platform-agnostic manner and without support from the social platforms or individual web sites arxiv.org/pdf/2403.114... #CHI24 With @karger.bsky.social 🧵