#toread #paper Dark patterns and the EU digital services act: Mapping autonomy violations and design factors by Sanju Ahuja et al. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5555765

#toread #paper The failed migration of academic Twitter: A case study of precocious adopters by Xinyu Wang, Sai Koneru, Sarah Rajtmajer http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04005v3

#toread #paper Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples by Michael Nicholas Stagnaro et al. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h9j2d

#toread #paper Recommender system in X inadvertently profiles ideological positions of users by Paul Bouchaud, Pedro Ramaciotti http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02624v1

#toread #paper AI hype in journalism: Visibility, power, and the politics of media narratives by Tomás Dodds et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2630187

#toread #paper LLMs can infer political alignment from online conversations by Byunghwee Lee et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11253v1

#toread #paper Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter by Aytalina Kulichkina et al. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-026-00637-2

#toread #paper Deepfake financial fraud: The global regulation of ai-driven scams by Schiffrin, Anya et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Deepfake%20financial%20fraud%3A%20The%20global%20regulation%20of%20ai-driven%20scams

#toread #paper Amplifying division: Electoral misinformation and political intolerance in B... by Rossini, Patrícia, Kalogeropoulos, Antonis, Mont'Alverne, Camila https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Amplifying%20division%3A%20Electoral%20misinformation%20and%20political%20intolerance%20in%20Brazil

#toread #paper The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence by Kobi Hackenburg et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea3884

#toread #paper Untitled https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Untitled

#toread #paper Everyday encounters with misinformation online: examining sources, topics and modes by Aimee Hourigan et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2636132

#toread #paper It’s Bad: What Now? by Baym, Nancy https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=It%E2%80%99s%20Bad%3A%20What%20Now%3F

#toread #paper Perceived political bias in LLMs reduces persuasive abilities by Matthew DiGiuseppe, Joshua Robison http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18092v1

#toread #paper Beyond detection: How Serbia's SNS party mimics authentic support through coordinated inauthentic behaviour by Ana Jovanovic-Harrington, Alessio Cornia https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231261422076

#toread #paper ECHO: Encoding Communities via High-order Operators by Emilio Ferrara http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22446v1

#toread #paper Integrating topic modeling and LLM prompt engineering into a human-driven approach to analyze interview transcripts by Teresa Ober, Karyssa A. Courey, Michael Flor https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18733521

#toread #paper Large language models require curated context for reliable political fact-checking -- even with reasoning and web search by Matthew R. DeVerna et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749v1

#toread #paper Elected officials’ online sharing of misinformation: Institutional and ideological checks by Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Yu-Ru Lin, Bruce A. Desmarais https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2613661

#toread #paper How to detect information voids using longitudinal data from social media and web searches by Irene Scalco et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15476v1

#toread #paper Newer, larger, better? A critique of the unreflective LLM adoption in communication research by Paul Balluff et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2618486

#toread #paper Defending fact-checking partnerships with platform companies: ‘We can't fight alone against disinformation’ by Johan Farkas, Mette Bengtsson https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231261422085

#toread #paper The political effects of X’s feed algorithm by Germain Gauthier et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2

#toread #paper How AI is imagined by industry during the Sam Altman controversy by Natalia Stanusch, Richard Rogers https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.174979411.18178682/v1

#toread #paper What is a fact in the age of generative AI? Fact-checking as an epistemological lens by Laurence Dierickx et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2630697

#toread #paper The Governance-Embedded Interactive Media Effect: the role of AI-generated disclosure in user credibility and engagement based on fact-checking videos on Chinese TikTok (Douyin) by Yiru Shi https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2026.2623075

#toread #paper Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act by (Philipp), Darius et al. https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/election-research-data-access-dsa

#toread #paper Identifying potentially irregular electoral ads in Facebook during the Brazilian elections by Marcio Inacio da Silva et al. https://doi.org/10.1145/3796545

#toread #paper The modality-congruent carryover effect: How difficulty in identifying (deep)fake news impacts self-confidence in truth discernment and susceptibility to subsequent disinformation by Sukyoung Choi https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251413726

#toread #paper Addressing social media platforms’ influence on academic research by Raffael Heiss, Isabelle Freiling https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ny2tx_v2

#toread #paper The entangled dynamics leading to the sedimentation of polarisation on political Reddit by Ehsan Dehghan et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2623523

#toread #paper The role of the term “fake news” in U.s. alternative media: Shaping political discourse and hyperpartisanship by Joseph J. Yoo, Hannah Lee, Soontae An https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251410599

#toread #paper Exposure to low-credibility online health content is limited and is concentrated among older adults by Benjamin Lyons et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01059-x

#toread #paper Prebunking misinformation techniques in social media feeds: Results from an Instagram field study by Sander van der Linden et al. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-193

#toread #paper Prebunking Misinformation Techniques In Social Media Feeds Results From An Instagram Field Study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468696425000424

#toread #paper On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture by Timothy Graham, Dominique Carlon https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409210

#toread #paper Conversational Inoculation to enhance resistance to misinformation by Dániel Szabó et al. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.379095

#toread #paper Conspiracy in the making: The role of journalistic strategies in the formation of new conspiracy beliefs by Tobias Rohrbach, Chiara Valli https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2026.2623882

#toread #paper Effects of antivaccine tweets on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, and deaths by John Bollenbacher, Filippo Menczer, John Bryden https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00606-1

#toread #paper Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions by Stephan Lewandowsky https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aee9835

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

New: I participated in a roundtable for the #CORIT project at the University of Urbino, led by the great @gboccia.bsky.social#CORIT a few weeks ago, and offered some thoughts about #polarisation and its configurations. I've now published that opening statement on my blog, too:

#toread #paper On narrative: The rhetorical mechanisms of online polarisation by Jan Elfes, Marco Bastos, Luca Maria Aiello http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07398v1

#toread #paper Same platform, different stories: TikTok and the battle over immigration narratives by William Hollingshead, Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.11409

Hello World I wanted to share an update on my project, supported by the AXA Research Fund axa-research.org postdoctoral fellowship. The project aims to identify the optimal characteristics of decentralised social media platforms that foster prosocial digital spaces (promote safe communication) 1/8

#toread #paper Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout by Young Mie Kim et al. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519944123

#toread #paper don't you know that you're toxic? how influencer‐driven misinformation fuels online toxicity by Giandomenico Di Domenico, Federico Mangió, Denitsa Dineva https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.70106

#toread #paper Beyond textual disinformation: Comparing the effects of textual disinformation to AI-generated and video-based visual disinformation across different issues by Michael Hameleers, Toni van der Meer https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409208

#toread #paper How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy by Daniel Thilo Schroeder et al. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/qm9yk_v3

#toread #paper AI red-teaming is a sociotechnical problem by Tarleton Gillespie et al. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731657