Musk is wrecking speech moderation on Twitter. There’s an alternative. Henry Farrell - November 12, 2022 Twitter alternative Mastodon moderates speech not through banning, but shunning across a broader ‘Fediverse’ of services.
Protesting for reproductive rights on International Women’s Day? Here are some lessons from the Women’s March. Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson - March 8, 2022 Here’s what my research found
Chaos UK, ‘World Stock Market’: The Week In One Song Christopher Federico - January 29, 2021 Wallstreetbets makes its mark.
Are influence campaigns trolling your social media feeds? Meysam Alizadeh, Joshua Tucker, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Cody Buntain - October 12, 2020 New research shows how citizens can know in real time.
The Hong Kong protests have been going on for months. What explains this sustained action? Daniel Mattingly - September 30, 2019 Here’s how leaderless protests get people out on the streets.
Twitter got somewhat more civil when tweets doubled in length. Here’s how we know. Yphtach Lelkes, Kokil Jaidka, and Alvin Zhou - September 17, 2019 The takeaway: Social media companies can improve public discussion without censorship.
Christchurch and the rise of the far right Peter R. Neumann - March 18, 2019 Here are some factors fueling far-right terrorism.
The Christchurch shooting suspect comes from an extreme online culture Henry Farrell - March 15, 2019 People gather at a vigil for Christchurch shooting victims at
How Venezuela’s economic crisis is undermining social science research — about everything Tyler Burleigh, Scott Clifford, Ryan Jewell, Ryan Kennedy, and Philip Waggoner - November 7, 2018 [caption id="attachment_79925" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)[/caption] For social scientists,
Alex Jones was just banned from YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. Here’s how he managed to survive until now Henry Farrell - August 6, 2018 [caption id="attachment_76387" align="alignleft" width="960"] Alex Jones of Infowars speaks at
Why did Russian social media swarm the digital conversation about Catalan independence? Javier Lesaca - November 22, 2017 [caption id="attachment_66519" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Anti-secession demonstrators shout slogans and wave
Here’s the data that told us Bernie Sanders would lose Kalev Leetaru - June 15, 2016 [caption id="attachment_39277" align="aligncenter" width="908"] (Seth Wenig/AP)[/caption] As we approach the
Why Reddit sucks: some scientific evidence Henry Farrell - September 9, 2014 [caption id="attachment_15458" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nude photos purportedly showing many top
After Peer Review John Sides - July 19, 2011 bq. Pickrell went on to describe, in general detail, the
EPSR, not APSR Henry Farrell - March 23, 2009 Via "Francois at Polit'Bistro":http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/167, the _European Political Science Review_ has