Who did it better? Mamdani or Soglin?

So proud of my wife for starting as the new City Clerk of Madison, WI! www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/20...

I am excited to present as part of the #TSRConf 2025 Conference Proceedings of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety at @stanfordcyber.bsky.social. Happy to have this paper published doi.org/10.54501/jot...

In an experiment with ~4% of the electorate of Cyprus, personalized affinity information increased electoral participation and encouraged party consideration but did not shift voting intentions, finds Ioannidis doi.org/10.1080/1933...

While an urban-rural divide persists in policy priorities, partisan affiliation is a stronger predictor of priorities than geographic location, finds Yildirim & Solvig in @psrm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Experimental manipulation of threat exposure has a null effect on ideological conservatism, finds @abbycassario.bsky.social et al. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to be on this panel discussing surveillance capitalism today!

🚨 CCCR has a new survey report out today! 🚨 "100 Days Under Trump: Public Reactions to Attacks on American Governance & Institutions" The report draws on our Apr/May YouGov panel survey of US adults, following our Oct 2024 survey w/ recontacts + a sample refresh. 1/ cccr.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!! Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there! 👇👇👇

People negatively evaluate AI moderators that use emotional arguments rather than rational arguments, finds Silver, Williams-Ceci, & @informor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3706...

When Community Notes inform users about falsehoods on X posts, the replies to the post have more negativity, anger, distrust, and moral outrage, finds Chuai ‪et al. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Higher problematic social media use is correlated with engaging false information online, finds Meshi & Molina t.co/NokaLxCGVn

Those high in need for cognition and cognitive reflection ability are more receptive to fact checks, finds Lee & Chung doi.org/10.1080/2167...

In a political era of Super PACs, congressional candidates seek to maintain control over their visual image through visual "b-roll", effectively subsidizing outside organizations, finds ‪@gfoysutherland.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1177/1532...

Fascinating look at decentralized, multi-directional propaganda efforts in China by Lu et al. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Access to high-speed internet increases addictive internet usage, reduces time allotted to sleep, homework, and social interactions, and leads to increases in mental health diagnoses and suicides, among adolescents in Spain, finds @estherarenasarroyo.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

A majority of people follow "costly" rules, even in settings in which they are anonymous, alone, and violations are harmless because of respect for rules and social expectations, even though rule violation is moderately contagious, finds Gächter et al., www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some really fascinating articles in this new issue edited by @lindsaypalmer.bsky.social

Across four experiments in two countries, broken campaign promises decrease domain-specific evaluations but not overall performance, have limited effects on those with strong priors, and are downplayed by ingroup members, finds @alonzoizner.bsky.social & Amsalem doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Both "cheap" and "deep" fakes suggesting a sex, corruption, or prejudice scandal caused reputational damage for an innocent politician, but a journalistic fact-check reduced the effect, finds @vioreladan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

News authentication--proactive verification of news--is more prevalent in the U.S. and Hong Kong than in the Netherlands, with political efficacy and institutional trust being individual-level predictors, finds @qfzhu.bsky.social Peng & Zhang doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Fascinting new study in 14 countries across Asia examining the media trust gap by Guo & @yuzhelei.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Sudden collective economic shocks can increase far-right vote share, with preexisting public service deprivation moderating the effects, finds @simonecremaschi.bsky.social Bariletto @catherinedevries.bsky.social in the case of a plant disease epidemic in Italy doi.org/10.1017/S000...

During the 2019 Canadian Election, partisan differences in online news consumption were small, with news consumption characteristics being more predictive of news consumption, finds @ericmerkley.bsky.social doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Interesting look at news values and perceived misinformation across 24 countries by Nenno & @cbpuschmann.bsky.social in IJPP doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Abstaining from social media does not significantly affect positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction, finds @lauralemahieu.bsky.social et al., in a meta analysis doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Despite trust in personal doctors becoming a partisan issue, experimental evidence suggests that sharing a political background with one's medical provider increases willingness to seek care, finds @obrian.bsky.social & Bradley Kent in @bjpols.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Observers of Black Lives Matter protests are more likely to describe protesters as violent if the protest is met with heavy police presence, finds English, @arielrwhite.bsky.social & @eckhouse.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Across 26 countries and using a database of 32M tweets, radical-right populist elites are the most likely to spread misinformation, finds @pettertornberg.bsky.social & @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Larger LLMs produce more persuasive political messages, but marginal persuasiveness diminishes significantly with model size, finds @kobihackenburg.bsky.social @benmtappin.bsky.social @paul-rottger.bsky.social Bright @computermacgyver.bsky.social @helenmargetts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Fascinating study of politicians' misinformation sharing behavior on social media, comparing across the U.S., UK, Italy, and Germany and levels of governance by @jingyuanyu.bsky.social @emesedomahidi.bsky.social @zollofab.bsky.social doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Fact-checking posts on Facebook have become more positive, with editorial fact-checkers using more emotionality than independent fact-checkers, with more emotionality associated with more engagement, finds @hnxue.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Attitudinal sorting (symbolic ideology, policy attitudes, group sentiments), not demographic sorting, is the primary contributor to affective polarization, finds Konicki using data from 1952-2020 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Fascinating look at the political implications of AI and partisan differences by @beamagistro.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social @bartbonikowski.bsky.social & Loewen in @ajpseditor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

The most successful person-to-person politically persuasive messages are those that bridge identity divides, use perspective taking, and incorporate personal narratives, finds @naunovmartin.bsky.social Ruedo-Cañòn @tjryan02.bsky.social in @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Future-tensed "I Will Vote" stickers are more effective than past-tense "I Voted" stickers at increasing voting intentions among low-propensity voters, finds Kraitzman, Demora & @dalbarra.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1058...

People who hold conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are more likely to endorse similar fabricated ideas, finds @sinanalper.bsky.social @onurcanyilmaz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1007/s121...

The International Journal of Press/ Politics is now accepting replication studies! I'm particularly excited to see papers that expand the generalizability of past findings to new contexts, including the Global South. Details here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Me submitting a paper to a journal without getting feedback on it first

Compared to fact checks that are rated as "true," "false" fact checks are more likely to mention Democrats but less likely to mention Republicans, finds Chuai et al. arxiv.org/abs/2310.08821

Latinos who rely on Spanish-language social media are more likely to believe misinformation compared to Latinos who primarily use English-language social media, finds Abrajano, @robertvidigal.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, et al., doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Fascinating look at the demographic correlates of neighborhoods and their online communities on Nextdoor by Tao & @mariannealq.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3678...

A BERT classifier outperformed a GPT classifier in detecting connective language on social media, finds @jolukito.bsky.social, Chen, @ginammasullo.bsky.social, @taliastroud.bsky.social, with an analysis on how connective language relates to other types of language aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

When people self-report consuming less local news, their faith in elections goes down, but does not influence broader support for the US system of government, finds @joshuadarr.bsky.social @moriahjharman.bsky.social

Happy holidays from Lydia, Boomer, and me 🎄

Interesting new study with three-wave panel data examining the relationship between hostile media perceptions and trust in news by @wintterlin.bsky.social Gurr @juliametag.bsky.social ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys are predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds @arechar.bsky.social @mmosleh.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Fascinating new look at source selection in news from Spangher, @emilioferrara.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...