What about debriefings in Misinformation Research? ✅ Only specific debriefings reduce belief in false info ⚠️ Both slightly reduce belief in true info 🧠 Only specific boosts perceived learning 🟢 Only general reduces manipulation & frustration 🔍 Both increase transparency osf.io/preprints/ps...

On this hot, sunny day in Madrid 🌞 during EPSA - happy to see this out in Nature Human Behavior 🚀 We show that, with the right incentives, social media cán do good!

Just published in @pnas.org @emmahoes.bsky.social and I find that people are far more concerned about AI’s immediate harms than about speculative existential risks. Doomsday talk raises concern about catastrophic outcomes but doesn’t reduce worry about today’s risks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New paper out in @pnas.org with @fgilardi.bsky.social ! Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom! 💥👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reminder to apply for the EUI Alumni Conference (also open to EUI PhDs and fellows)! Deadline is this Friday, March 14th. Looking forward!

Looking forward to be presenting joint work in progress with @klueserthan.bsky.social and @sachaltay.bsky.social on ‘The Hidden Politics of Social Media’

A car attack in Munich just days before the election-was it a game-changer? Politico speculated it could boost the AfD, but the results tell a different story. Our research on the Utrecht attack shows why voters often rally around incumbents instead: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Any tips/recommendations are welcome! P.S. Is Qualtrics pricing itself out of the academic market purposefully, you think?

Social media fragmentation: do online platforms drown democracy in noise? feat. @hannesbajohr.de & @emmahoes.bsky.social www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...

To my fellow former or current EUI members —> The EUI Alumni Association is now also on BlueSky 👋 @eui-alumni.bsky.social Make sure to follow and apply for the Alumni Conference on the Role of Academia in Challenging times on June 11th in beautiful Florence 🌞

🎓Delighted to announce that the 2025 annual EUI Alumni Association will take place on 11th of June on "Reimagining the Role of Academia in Challenging Times" - The call for proposals is open to EUI Alumni and the EUI community! @eui-eu.bsky.social

“[…] the tech panic isn’t based on evidence. It’s based on vibes.” Refreshing read, this piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Exciting news ✨ The new Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism has 5 open PhD positions, one of them based in our very own POLCOM group. Thinking of applying, or know someone who might be interested? All info can be found 🔗 t.ly/836lz

🚨 New publication alert in PSRM! 🚨 Our latest paper examines gender bias in media coverage of elections and the factors influencing it. Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... With @fgilardi.bsky.social y.social & @gessler.bsky.social

Regarding monetization, this article may be relevant:

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Disclosure of AI-Generated News Increases Engagement but Does Not Reduce Aversion, Despite Positive Quality Ratings New version, with @emmahoes.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/abs/2409.035...

Hier is de brief van staatssecretaris Nora Achahbar (NSC) met een toelichting op haar aftreden.

✨ New paper! ✨ Disclosure of AI-Generated News Increases Engagement but Does Not Reduce Aversion, Despite Positive Quality Ratings with @emmahoes.bsky.social et al. #polisky #commsky arxiv.org/abs/2409.03500

Interesting! More evidence that we should eschew a defense-against-the-dark-arts approach to teaching media literacy in favor of something more balanced, affirming, & helpful. (Full disclosure: that’s the tack @hibitus-habitus.bsky.social & I take in our new kids’ book: Gram & Gran Save the Summer.

Social Media Influencers (SMIs) are not a major source of misinformation, study by @klueserthan.bsky.social & @emmahoes.bsky.social on 1.3M Instagram posts by SMIs with 500k+ followers finds—just 0.005% are false: buff.ly/3SiHN1w

🥳 New publication in Communications Psychology! As misinfo is rare and more news is reliable, do media literacy tips boosting trust in true news work just as well as ones promoting skepticism of false news? Yes! And as a bonus, they also boost trust in the media! 🗞️ Full paper 👉 shorturl.at/d8CNp

🥳 New publication! @CommsPsychol As misinfo is rare and more news is reliable, do media literacy tips boosting trust in true news work just as well as ones promoting skepticism of false news? Yes! And as a bonus, they also boost trust in the media! 👉 https://shorturl.at/d8CNp

📣 New paper with @klueserthan! The @nytimes wrote an article (🔗 below) about a secretive industry hiring Social Media Influencers (SMI) to seed false narratives. But to what extent do SMIs engage with misinfo? We went to find out! 👉 Pre-print:...

"We find that sustained negative coverage significantly predicts changes to platforms’ user policies, highlighting the role of public pressure in shaping the governance of online platforms." by @emmahoes.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social @malizadeh.bsky.social et al.

🚨 New Publication @polcommjournal 📢 #OpenAccess Can journalism still act as a watchdog? Yes! We find that negative news coverage drives policy changes at #Facebook , #XTwitter , and #YouTube , proving that platforms can be held accountable

Also on my way to @europsa, where tomorrow 9am I’ll be presenting this work in progress in a fascinating panel about the threats of AI 🤖

Misinformation interventions reduce belief in false information, however, they can also have a "backfire effect" of reducing belief in factual information across three continents, finds @emmahoes.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

"while all interventions successfully reduce belief in false information, they also negatively impact the credibility of factual information" New Nature Human Behavior article by @emmahoes.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just out in @NatureHumBehav 🥳 Do interventions against #misinformation help, or do they come with undesired effects? Both! Our findings suggest current strategies increase skepticism in otherwise trusted pieces of information Link to full paper 👉 https://rdcu.be/dKmXg

🚨 New pre-print 📢 In this study, I used a difference-in-differences design to evaluate how a long-term media literacy course affects students' ability to judge news accuracy. Unlike many short-term interventions, this course was integrated into the school curriculum. 🧑‍🎓🏫

Really important paper that gets at heart of a problem in lots of digital media literacy interventions! Increasing skepticism alone is probably not a long term viable solution to creating trust/confidence in information.

🚨 New paper 🚨 Despite the small prevalence of false news, media literacy tips typically encourage people to be more skeptical of the news🧐 Would they be effective if they promoted trust in true news instead? And does the proportion of true-false news matter?

I’ve got 4 invite codes for the other place 🔵☁️

📢 Meet TOD: a new mock social media platform designed to facilitate real-time ('live') dynamic participant interactions 🗨️! TOD also features other live elements like pop-ups and message-level interventions With the wonderful Jonathan Klüser 👉pre:print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 Meet TOD: a new mock social media platform designed to facilitate real-time ('live') dynamic participant interactions 🗨️! TOD also features other live elements like pop-ups and message-level interventions With the wonderful @klueserthan 👉pre-print:...

"The overlap in the points raised by GPT-4 and by human reviewers is comparable to the overlap between two human reviewers. 82.4% of the users found GPT-4 generated feedback more beneficial than feedback from at least some human reviewers"

🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

🔊CONFERENCE CALL 🚨Navigating the Complex Landscape of Disinformation European Digital Media Observatory EDMO & U of Amsterdam: Call for (abstract) submissions open NOW (deadline Oct 20) Conference dates (Amsterdam 💕) February 26-27, 2024 commsky polisky polcom SHARE 🔁 edmo.eu/2023/09/18/e...

New paper out! 🚀 👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40716-2 @fgilardi @MeysamAIizadeh

🚨 Just out in @nature Scientific Reports🚨 What is the type of content people would share on social media if they were rewarded for it with 💰💰💰? In this paper, @MeysamAIizadeh @fgilardi and I show that even a simple nudge (not yet actual money)... [1/X]

✨ Job alert ✨ 2-year postdoc position, part of @fgilardi’s @PRODIGI_ERC > Digital tech & politics > Causal inference, experiments and/or CSS > PhD completed or close to completion > Starting Jan 2024 (or later) As I’m part of the PRODIGI team, happy to answer any Qs!

Just arrived in Glasgow for #EPSA2023! If you’re in town, hit me up or if you are interested in whether social media influencers are spreading #misinformation, join this great panel and I’ll tell you all about it (Friday, 15h10)! 👇 And hope to see y’all soon at the reception!🍹

Calling in a favour from the experimentalist among us 👩‍🏫 I am putting together a syllabus for a 3/4 day course on experimental design in social sciences (broad) with a focus on mock social media platforms. Anyone with readings and/or existing syllabi for inspiration? 🫶

🚨 New Pre-print! 🚨 https://psyarxiv.com/zmpdu Do interventions against #misinformation help, or do they come with undesired effects by increasing skepticism in otherwise trusted pieces of information? Both! Our findings suggest current strategies require substantive changes 🤯

Can ChatGPT be leveraged to assist fact-checking efforts? Yes! We find that ChatGPT accurately categorizes 12.000 fact-checked statements in 72% of cases. It is better at identifying true claims (80%) than false claims (67%). @Sacha_Altay @fgilardi @AIMediaDem_Lab

“political speech is ineligible for fact-checking. This includes the words a politician says as well as photo, video, or other content that is clearly labeled as created by the politician or their...