#toread #paper Investigating perceived trust and utility of balanced news chatbots among individuals with varying conspiracy beliefs by Shreya Dubey et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.108920

#toread #paper The discursive flexibility of changecraft: Platform change discourse in Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and X by Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251408212

#toread #paper Industry influence in high-profile social media research by Joseph Bak-Coleman et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507v1

My new creator career is doing great 😁 Thank you 🇦🇺!

Badge of honor.

#toread #paper ‘My Europe Builds Walls’: A cross-platform visual analysis of the Sweden Democrats’ 2024 EU election campaign by Salma Bouchafra, Mathilda Åkerlund https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251408336

#toread #paper Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation by Renee Lieu, Oliver R. Hayes, John Cook https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70049

#toread #paper The Tate-space on YouTube: Ambient ideology and the limits of platform moderation by Bernhard Rieder, Bastian August, Brogan Latil https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409209

#toread #paper A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages by Jan G. Voelkel et al. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xwceg_v2

#toread #paper Cross-national evidence of disproportionate media visibility for the Radical Right in the 2024 European elections by Íris Damião et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05826v1

#toread #paper Prigozhin’s propaganda team: The st Petersburg internet research agency (2013–2021) by Serge Poliakoff, Florian Toepfl https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2588334

#toread #paper “Meet the new boss – Same as the old boss”: A longitudinal study of political post sentiment and Facebook engagement by Anders Olof Larsson https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v31i1.14448

#toread #paper Social bots as agenda-builders: Evaluating the impact of algorithmic amplification on organizational messaging by Phillip Arceneaux et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726x.2025.2606676

New preprint: Meta's political content policy cut Italian MPs' reach by 72%. But this is just Italy. If you have Meta Content Library access, you can run this for your country. Germany? France? Brazil? 🔗 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8dqag_v2 📁 github.com/fabiogiglietto/mcl-political-reach-study

#toread #paper The logic of connective faction: How digitally networked elites and hyper-partisan media radicalize politics by Curd B. Knüpfer, Yunkang Yang, Mike Cowburn https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2604708

#toread #paper The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the erosion of trust, the corrosion of information verification, and the demise of truth by Emilio Ferrara http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00306v1

#toread #paper Sky News Australia as network propaganda... by Copland, Simon, Bruns, Axel, Graham, Timothy https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Sky%20News%20Australia%20as%20network%20propaganda%3A%20how%20a%20niche%20cable%20channel%20became%20an%20international%20right-wing%20propaganda%20machine

#toread #paper Research opportunities and challenges of the EU's Digital Services Act by Pierri, Francesco et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Research%20opportunities%20and%20challenges%20of%20the%20EU%27s%20Digital%20Services%20Act

Happy 2026! 🎉 I finally built the thing I'd had in mind for a while: FG's Research Radio, AI-generated audio deep dives into computational social science papers. It pulls from my PaperPile reading list, so I can catch up on papers while walking or driving fabiogiglietto.github.io/research-rad...

#toread #paper Large Language Models for data annotation and synthesis: A survey by Zhen Tan et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13446v3

#toread #paper Bridging the narrative divide: Cross-platform discourse networks in fragmented ecosystems by Gerard, Patrick et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Bridging%20the%20narrative%20divide%3A%20Cross-platform%20discourse%20networks%20in%20fragmented%20ecosystems

#toread #paper The tip of the iceberg: How the social media production-consumpt... by Oswald, Lisa et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20tip%20of%20the%20iceberg%20How%20the%20social%20media%20productionconsumption%20gap%20distorts%20public%20opinion%20for%20citizens%20and%20researchers

#toread #paper Attributing coordinated social media manipulation: A theoretical model and typology by Thiele, Daniel et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Attributing%20coordinated%20social%20media%20manipulation%20A%20theoretical%20model%20and%20typology

#toread #paper Detecting coordinated activities through temporal, multiplex, and collaborative analysis by Iannucci, Letizia et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Detecting%20coordinated%20activities%20through%20temporal%20multiplex%20and%20collaborative%20analysis

My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

#toread #paper The post-API age of social media data access: Past, present, and future by Freelon, Deen et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20postAPI%20age%20of%20social%20media%20data%20access%20Past%20present%20and%20future

#toread #paper Untitled https://sciety-labs.elifesciences.org/articles/by?article\_doi=10.31235/osf.io/p6yh9\_v1

The Fundamental Law of Disinformation Covariance: We assert that disinformation is not an independent variable, but a dependent function of event saliency

For the historians of platforms' policies out there: Meta has changed its policy on Inauthentic Behavior: transparency.meta.com/policies/com....

#toread #paper Rabble-rousers in the new king's court: Algorithmic effects on account visibility in pre-X... by Efstratiou, Alexandros et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Rabblerousers%20in%20the%20new%20kings%20court%20Algorithmic%20effects%20on%20account%20visibility%20in%20preX%20twitter

#toread #paper ‘More than a feeling’ – Facebook reactions and the sharing of political ... by Kalsnes, Bente, Larsson, Anders Olof https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=More%20than%20a%20feeling%20Facebook%20reactions%20and%20the%20sharing%20of%20political%20posts%20during%20Scandinavian%20elections

IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

€40m of the fine was specifically for data access breaches affecting researchers. The inadequate Google form X created to falsely demonstrate DSA compliance wasted many hours of researchers' time and this portion of the fine should be redistributed to the affected scholars as compensation

#toread #paper Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues by Lin, Hause et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Persuading%20voters%20using%20humanartificial%20intelligence%20dialogues

#toread #paper The persistence of informational manipulation and the appropriation of ... by FitzGerald, Katherine M, Whelan-Shamy, Daniel, Graham, Timothy https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20persistence%20of%20informational%20manipulation%20and%20the%20appropriation%20of%20emerging%20events

I’m so happy and humbled to share that I’ve been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA26) ($528,013 + 1 PhD scholarship funded by QUT) for my project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" 🥳🎉

#toread #paper Platform-independent experiments on social media by Allen, Jennifer, Tucker, Joshua A https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Platformindependent%20experiments%20on%20social%20media

Just found: Answer given by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu from 6 March 2025 featuring our project. A fair bit has happened since then - and we are proud to say we delivered on various fronts in the fight against #disinformation

#toread #paper RIP Twitter API: A eulogy to its vast research contributions by Murtfeldt, Ryan et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=RIP%20Twitter%20API%20A%20eulogy%20to%20its%20vast%20research%20contributions

#toread #paper Multimodal narratives of climate denial: A novel, visual-fir... by Gardam, Caroline et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Multimodal%20narratives%20of%20climate%20denial%20A%20novel%20visualfirst%20methodology%20for%20analysing%20conspiracy%20theory%20discourse%20on%20Instagram

One week to go! Still time to register! Join us for the "Meet the Future of AI" series organized by several EU co-funded projects and the @ec.europa.eu. it takes place in Brussels on 2 December. You can also participate online. Prior registration required 👇

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

#toread #paper Untitled https://datasociety.net/library/scam-gpt/

#toread #paper Untitled https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468696425000424

👋 So hello world, we did a thing. 🎁 Might be useful for some people ? #misinformation #disinformation #fakenews

#toread #paper How public involvement can improve the science of AI by Matias, J Nathan, Price, Megan https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=How%20public%20involvement%20can%20improve%20the%20science%20of%20AI

New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth” I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.

do I have any Japanese followers (or experts of the Japanese internet) who can explain why Community Notes appears to have so many Japanese super users?