🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

University of Zurich researchers found that varying forms of #medialiteracy tips improved discernment of true and false news, encouraged sharing of accurate content, and increased the level of trust in traditional media. Published in Communications Psychology nature. tipaz.org/white-papers/r…

"Extensive coverage of Russian propaganda – that doesn’t contextualize its limited reach – runs the risk of playing into the Russians’ hands, while giving cover to homegrown offenders."

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

More evidence that instead of being passively influenced by misinformation some people actively seek it 🔍 "Overall, it appears that individual choices are driving engagement with unreliable information sources from search, not algorithms." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Many people are sharing this graph, which seemingly shows reasons for why swing voters decided against Harris. Here's a 🧵 on why this tells us very little about actual motivations for vote choice. Method: Swing voters were presented with 4 choice pairs with the statements below.

📘 Vol 63.4 How do voters evaluate abrupt policy U-turns? Mohamed Nasr & Emma Hoes conduct a survey experiment in 🇩🇪 to explore whether the motivation 💡 behind positional shifts affects voter evaluations of #PoliticalParties 🗳️ #OpenAccess 🔓 bit.ly/48lPOZe

🎯"counter to the idea that gullibility to false information is the main factor underlying inaccurate beliefs, skepticism against belief-incongruent true information is much more pronounced than gullibility to belief-congruent false information" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thank you to all participants to the Workshop on AI & Politics at Ciència Política UB It was great to debate so much great work: aipsr.net/workshop-2-ai/

Also for the Alumni Association the time has come to move to BlueSky! 🏡 We will remain on X for a little while to hopefully allow all alumni and other followers to migrate with or find us there! 🦋昭昭-alumni.bsky.social See you on the other side 👋

You can find the Call for the 2025 EUI Alumni Conference here 👉bsky.app/profile/eui-al… What? 🧐 Reimagining the Role of Academia in Challenging times Where? 📍At our beloved Badia, in Florence When? 🗓️ June 11th Deadline for Submissions: March 14th 📨

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: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I wrote about whether the truth concerning AI and democracy is more boring than we'd like it to be:

In November 2023, I gave an invited talk at the Digital Democracy Workshop at the University of Zurich, organized by Fabrizio Gilardi. I presented an early version of my work on two types of AI x-risk (lnkd.in/dmrP8kt6) to a group of political scientists. This talk sparked

Is #socialMedia bad for society? In two countries, following a couple mainstream #news accounts on #Instagram or #WhatsApp improved knowledge, discernment, and trust without impacting #polarization, interest in #politics, etc. (N ≅ 3400). Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

The key figure -- key comparison is orange vs. blue. Headline in talking about x-risk doesn't detract from near-term concerns -- in fact, the effect is positive, but not statistically significant.

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

In this article, Sacha Altay Emma Hoes and Magdalena Wojcieszak show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news, and trust in the news. nature.com/articles/s4156…