🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

Leaders from industry, startups, government, & nonprofits joined us for a "What the Heck Does A Data Scientist Do?" panel. Panelists: ⭐CDS Prof Foster Provost ⭐Goguma CTO Haftan Eckholdt ⭐CDS alums @swapneel.bsky.social & Tatenda Ndambakuwa ⭐NYC Campaign Finance Board's Sarath Kareti

Among others, it includes lessons on: - trustworthy AI for journalism with @swapneel.bsky.social, - tips on safeguarding mental health in the age of digital disinfo with @jospang.bsky.social, - and insights on tackling disinformation from the Global South with @hwasser.bsky.social.

Learning resource: Have you checked out the videos for our #TacklingDisinformation course? Our playlist over on YouTube gives you an overview of current concepts and discussions. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Really excited to publish an article with Sam and Deepika discussing concrete steps for transparency regulation for digital platforms! Social networks aren't the first case of incredibly powerful, incredibly opaque systems that cater to millions of users across the world.

Our work on the design of social media interventions will be presented at TPRC 2025! We discuss the need for common language to discuss disjoint platform interventions and organize them into classes of interventions commonly applied by platforms so we can assess their collective impact and trends.

I get that business and academia aren't the same but there is some irony in the immediate furore created around making crypto and fintech startups pay for data access and "cripple" their business models, while academics and researchers ...

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...

A mentee told me this should have been a social media post so here it is. A great advisor opens doors for you that you never even imagined you would be good enough for. A good advisor opens doors for you to rooms they've been in. A bad advisor uses your name to walk into the room themselves.

It was an honor to represent the 41 emerging leaders selected from over 20 nationalities in the Atlantic Dialogues program in December. A tl;dr on my comments to the dignitaries and political leaders from Africa, Asia, and Europe about the "Wider Challenges in the Atlantic Basin" 👇🧵

New year, new updates to my team's work on #ai, #digitaltrust, #misinformation, and platform governance up on mehtaver.se and hopefully more writing on the blog this year! Reach out if any of these topics are of interest and I'm happy to chat about our plans!

Totally fascinating replies from @aoc.bsky.social/Trump split ticket voters on her IG.

Proud to share the Integrity Institute's second election integrity guide for online platforms (adding to our first guide earlier this year)! @katieharbath.bsky.social and I, and the fantastic group of integrity professionals at the Institute, hope people find this helpful heading into 2024 elections

Over the past few months, I've learnt firsthand how policy-making works and I have so much respect for those that contribute to it. Developing #socialmedia regulation policies is clearly an uphill challenge especially with the influence of pervasive and rather opaque tech like #generativeAI.

I have a dream that one day I will act on this productivity hack from my (amazing) mentor who is now a sr. principal at a tech company :')

Very interesting shift in content moderation preferences expressed in the survey over the past 3 years.

Excited to share my selection to the 2023 #GoogleCloud Research Innovators recognizing our work at https://simppl.org building tools to identify online harms and their perpetrators Honored to join the ranks of profs receiving the award bit.ly/gcp-award Reach out if you'd like to partner w/ us!

One of the reasons I love participating in career advice seminars is to share facts and experiences about higher education that people in the system treat as common knowledge but those outside it often have no idea of. "MS is not a prereq. for a Ph.D." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLcPFzxCiVg