Musk is wrecking speech moderation on Twitter. There’s an alternative.
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.
Here’s what my research found
Chaos UK, ‘World Stock Market’: The Week In One Song
Wallstreetbets makes its mark.
Are influence campaigns trolling your social media feeds?
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?
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.
The takeaway: Social media companies can improve public discussion without censorship.
Christchurch and the rise of the far right
Here are some factors fueling far-right terrorism.
The Christchurch shooting suspect comes from an extreme online culture
People gather at a vigil for Christchurch shooting victims at
How Venezuela’s economic crisis is undermining social science research — about everything
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Alex Jones was just banned from YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. Here’s how he managed to survive until now
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Why did Russian social media swarm the digital conversation about Catalan independence?
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Here’s the data that told us Bernie Sanders would lose
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Why Reddit sucks: some scientific evidence
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Cognitive Democracy
Over the last couple of years, Cosma Shalizi and I
After Peer Review
bq. Pickrell went on to describe, in general detail, the
EPSR, not APSR
Via "Francois at Polit'Bistro":http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/167, the _European Political Science Review_ has