New in TiCS w David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Gordon Pennycook! It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded, but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model Time for new approaches: o True/False → Content that misleads o Belief → Behavior o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings

However your day is going, just be grateful that you didn't temporarily make part of the Constitution disappear.

the total collapse of civil society in the face of an unpopular, authoritarian, and senile president (who only won 49.9% of the vote in the first place) is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen

I will long remember that at a time when most business leaders’(particularly in media) response to the attack on our democracy was to drown in their silence, Reed Hastings had the conviction to take a stand.

I have to say I have been struck that the prominent members of the financial community have had more to say being critical of Zohran Kwame Mamdani's bad ideas about grocery stores in New York than they have the wholesale takeover of the @FederalReserve, which is a major threat to the

When your main results are insignificant but one subgroup has p-value = 0.048

In my study of Sunday news talk shows last year, I found that CBS’s Face the Nation was the only of the four networks to have Palestinian and Arab guests and was the least pro-Israel in framing overall.

Checking in now with Thomas Jefferson:

🚨 New paper! In "Rethinking Citizen Competence," Steven Klein and I argue that common concerns about citizen competence do not reflect recent evidence, (especially from misinfo literature). We're more competent than we give ourselves credit for. Link: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

“How we think about democracy has implications for how we think about citizen competence. Different conceptions of democracy lead to different requirements for citizen competence.”

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… We need to make the same thing happen this time.

It is great, and not at all surprising, to see Governor Cox stepping up in this moment to try to turn the temperature down and focus ppl on grieving the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk. For years, Governor Cox has promoted civility and grace across party lines. Our research finds

There are no terror networks. None. Zero.

Senators: Read one (1) book about modern autocracy

Time again to remind that an early sign of Putin's autocratic ambitions was the cancellation of a puppet show that regularly parodied him.

Authoritarian regimes always come up with exceptions and "emergencies" to justify taking away people's rights

Reminder: It does not matter if the charges don't hold up in court. If Trump can investigate and prosecute his enemies, he can ruin people's reputations and bankrupt them. Even the threat of a Comey-style prosecution will silence dissent within and outside his administration.

I gasped when I saw the front page of this decision; Judge Young includes a postcard sent to him asking "Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."