One of the best articles I’ve seen assessing the efficacy of disinformation inoculation/pre-bunking, including exploration of games like Bad News and Go Viral!, and looking at longitudinal effects (best case seems to be 2 to 3 months, with “booster shots”) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Looking forward to my talk next week to the National Academies committee on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science National Academies Sacha Altay, where we'll discuss all of the "solutions" on the table, and their pros/cons. nationalacademies.org/event/02-22-20…

Seeing the city of Oakland declaring state of emergency after a ransomware attack, here in the Bay Area with some of the best tech talent in the world, underscores how much work there is to be done to support and modernize government. So sad to hear this. nbcbayarea.com/news/local/eas…

New: Meta is launching a subscription service called “Meta Verified” for Facebook/Instagram. It costs $11.99/month ($14.99 on the iOS app) and features include: * verification badge * better account support * “increased visibility and reach”

New study re primaries: Avg vote share of election-denying Republicans in statewide races was 2.3 %pts lower than their co-partisans after accounting for state-level partisanship, but they received 2%pts more vote share than other R candidates in primaries gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-resear…

Was just asked to explain the difference between data portability and interoperability. This is a great, short primer. bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/portabili…

Great opportunity! Third Plateau hiring Senior Director on their Democracy team to oversee Democracy Communications Fund, a new pooled donor fund investing in research/coms to build public support for U.S. democracy (initial focus on trust in elections). thirdplateau.com/careers/senior…

Well, this is about the weirdest thing I have heard in quite a while… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

I assume CDA 230 will withstand its challenge before SCOTUS starting today, and in this case it should

Starting now: our talk with the National Academies committee on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science with National Academies, where Sacha Altay and I will discuss all of the "solutions" on the table, and their pros/cons.

BREAKING: This morning Governor DeSantis officially signed into law the removal of Walt Disney’s special tax district. This move isn't happening because DeSantis thinks it's best for the state, but instead it's best for his political ambitions after Disney decided to speak out

BREAKING | NBC News: In what has been described as a "major incident" the United States Marshals Service has suffered a ransomware attack and data exfiltration which includes law enforcement sensitive information about fugitives. Reported w/ Andrew Blankstein Mike Kosnar & jonathan dienst

Sobering. Americans Have the Lowest Trust in News in the World (at 26%, just behind Slovakia, Romania, and Taiwan, and far behind the highest rated country - Finland at 69%). open.substack.com/pub/theliberal…

Mount Tamalpais College is hiring a COO. Mission is to provide world class higher ed to students incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison (aka the Prison University Project, which received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama). daniel stiven mttamcollege.org/about/careers/

Excellent post from Ruy Teixeira on the democrats’ Asian and Hispanic voter problems open.substack.com/pub/theliberal…

Important new research from ⁦⁦Common Ground USA⁩: Hyper-Partisan Politicians Received 4x More Coverage Than Bipartisan Problem Solvers in US Top Media Outlets. Sign petition asking most-watched media to balance coverage and broadcast bipartisanship. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Kaiser Family Foundation is hiring a Project Manager in DC to join a new program area on countermeasures to combat health mis- and disinfo and build trust in facts, evidence, and science, working with a great team! kff.bamboohr.com/careers/56

🚨📬 New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour w/ @RyanMooreComm and Ross Dahlke 🔑 How many Americans were exposed to misinformation during the 2020 election? We find that 26.2% of Americans were exposed in 2020 compared to 44.3% during the 2016 election. nytimes.com/2023/04/13/bus… 🧵👇

Just reading this study re: how out-group animosity drives engagement on social media. References "to the political out-group increased the odds of a social media post being shared by 67%" and emerged as O the strongest predictor of shares and retweets. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…