Who has a policy that would benefit you? More voters say Trump.
Fewer voters say this of Harris – a challenge for Clinton in 2016 but not Biden in 2020.
Republicans are increasingly sharing misinformation, research finds
Megan A. Brown and Maggie Macdonald - August 28, 2022
Republican candidates have dramatically increased how much they share from unreliable sources in just two years
Twitter banned Marjorie Taylor Greene. That may not hurt her much.
Megan A. Brown and Maggie Macdonald - January 13, 2022
She’s gaining followers and ‘likes’ on other social media platforms, our research finds
Twitter amplifies conservative politicians. Is it because users mock them?
Megan A. Brown, Joshua Tucker, and Jonathan Nagler - October 26, 2021
Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often. That may explain why they’re in your timeline.
Which Republicans are most likely to think the election was stolen? Those who dislike Democrats and don’t mind white nationalists.
Jan Zilinsky, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker - January 19, 2021
That includes plenty of Republicans with college educations
Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Our research examined which worked best.
Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, and Joshua Tucker - December 8, 2020
Without a hard block, tweets continue to spread — especially tweets by President Trump
Are influence campaigns trolling your social media feeds?
Meysam Alizadeh, Cody Buntain, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Joshua Tucker - October 12, 2020
New research shows how citizens can know in real time.
It’s not easy for ordinary citizens to identify fake news
Zeve Sanderson, Kevin Aslett, Will Godel, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, and Joshua Tucker - April 7, 2020
And fake coronavirus news is no exception.
Biden and Sanders are debating tonight. What got Twitter users buzzing during past Democratic debates?
Zhanna Terechshenko, Tom Paskhalis, Niklas Loynes, Megan A. Brown, and Jonathan Nagler - March 13, 2020
We checked. No candidate’s issues broke out ahead of the rest.
Think celebrities get punished for being political? In fact, they get retweeted.
Jan Zilinsky, Cristian Vaccari, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker - October 27, 2019
Michael Jordan’s supposed dictum — “Republicans buy sneakers, too” — may be outdated.