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Our third Wednesday Seminar of the semester is now available on YouTube. "Moderating Extremism" is an ongoing book project by Columbia's Tamar Mitts. WATCH HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=Ycwx0v…

After years of research, my new book "Violent Victors" is out! It addresses the puzzle of how parties that commit violence win elections and the implications for democracy, justice, peace, and governance. Please help me spread the word! press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

🚨New paper alert (joint work with Carlo Schwarz)🚨 What was the effect of deleting Donald J. Trump's Twitter account in January 2021? A 25% drop in the toxicity of tweets sent by his followers relative to other users. Full paper: ssrn.com/abstract=42963…

Today’s Twitter announcement is a perfect illustration of how external research – crucial for making informed public policy – can become collateral damage when platforms make policy changes that have nothing to do with research. 1/ x.com/TwitterDev/sta…

Excited to share a new PNASNews paper about hate crime support! Most perpetrators are young and male, but we show that support for violent anti-refugee hate crime cuts across society & that it can lead to the radicalization of politics. Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

1/ THREAD: Israel is currently undergoing a period of revolutionary change, and the pace of events can be difficult to keep up with, even for those residing and working here. Let me attempt to clarify some of the developments we are witnessing. (video of Sat demo, Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي)

New on PNAS NEXUS 🚨 *Deplatforming Parler following January 6th did not decrease the activity of Parler users in fringe social media in general* Users migrated to other platforms like Gab at a rate that compensated for the decrease in activity in Parler 📰academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Shawn Lonergan & I are excited to share that our first book, Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace, is out w/ the Bridging the Gap series at OUP! We are so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who supported us along the way. More to come soon! Columbia | SIPA SIPA Cyber Army Cyber Institute

Thrilled to co-host (with Tamar Mitts) the inaugural Media Effects Empirical Workshop on May 5 at Columbia University. This biannual workshop features the latest works in political communication across subfields. Please RSVP here: sites.google.com/view/columbia-….

New issue of Perspectives on Politics out, including my (open access) article w/Asfandyar Mir and Tamar Mitts on using social media to identify murky patterns of elite competition and alignment, with evidence from the 2018 Pakistani general election: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

How should we measure opinion in rapidly changing information environments? In a working paper, I develop an approach - the crowdsourced adaptive survey (CSAS) - that unites LLMs and adaptive algorithms to create surveys that evolve with user input. 🔗: dropbox.com/scl/fi/34yw3p0…

Tamar Mitts and I are excited to host the 2nd MEEW (Media Effects Empirical Workshop) at Columbia University on May 3, 2024. Please register! (sites.google.com/view/columbia-…) ISERP

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity, Please share! 🚨 @LeticiaBode, Lisa Singh and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us at Massive Data Institute (MDI) on our project on GenAI, Misinformation, and Social Media. Full-time research, no teaching required. Please reach out! apply.interfolio.com/143997

Come see @aaronrkaufmann, Tamar Mitts, Safa Al-Saeedi, & Alexandra Siegel talk about ideology in MENA, militant propaganda in AFGH, & more! The NYU-AD event will be *tomorrow* April 18, 2024, 4‐6pm @ 19 Washington Square North, *NYC*. Alexei Sisulu Abrahams & I will discuss!

My paper with Devorah Manekin and @YaelZeira on public opinion towards protests just came out at PNAS. Check it out! 👇

The advance copy of my book, Safe Havens for Hate, is here! It offers a deep dive into the moderation of harmful content on social media and explains why efforts to combat online extremism keep failing. Official release March 4! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

BREAKING: New book out TODAY by my brilliant spouse Tamar Mitts Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism. The book explains why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremists. Go check it out! amazon.com/Safe-Havens-Ha…

📢 It's out! My new book "Safe Havens for Hate" explores how extremists exploit gaps in online moderation to spread hate across platforms. Out now with Princeton University Press! 📖 Read more & order: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Excited to organize the AI and Democratic Governance mini-conference at Yale ISPS this Friday! Join us for a day of conversations on how AI is shaping democracy - its risks, oversight, and potential. ⚠️ Last day to register! shorturl.at/KEaE9 Open to the Yale community!