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"[W]e uncovered broad consensus that the most extreme and violent language should be sanctioned in some way by platforms.” Princeton School of Public & International Affairs's Research Record looks at the work of Professor Andy Guess Andy Guess spia.princeton.edu/news/research-…

Actual data on people's content moderation decisions on hypothetical posts! Happy to be part of this project led by Simon Munzert & Richard Traunmüller w/ JungHwan Yang Pablo Barberá

In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze, President Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris announced today. ▶️ spr.ly/60152zZAv

just dropped an article with Brian Schaffner and Steve Ansolabehere showing that claims about young voters flipping to Trump aren't supported by CES, VoteCast, or exit poll data. low response rates and vote misreporting help explain the confusion tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-vot…

Janus Films is a national security threat. x.com/PolitlcsUS/sta…

Trump says he wants to tariff foreign films to push back on propaganda. Yet at the same time keeps delaying the TikTok shutdown. What’s the theory there? A profit opportunity for an American acquirer? Or does he intuitively think its existence benefits him politically.

Many political science faculty perceive declines in academic freedom since January, especially on Israel/Palestine (43%) & DEI (42%). Self-censorship reported in extramural speech (55%), communicating with students (40%), teaching (33%), and research (20%).

Faculty who report self-censoring mostly cite the political climate beyond campus (71%). Key fears: -Harassment (64%) -Professional harm (48%) -Legal sanctions (26%) -Violence (19%) Notably, non-citizens overwhelmingly cite immigration status fears (75%).

Nothing justifies this treatment

2/ Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson & Aliz Toth on party leaders and rank-and-file candidates cambridge.org/core/journals/…

our article on misinformation and support for vigilantism is in the new issue of American Political Science Review, alongside these amazing south asia scholars

“The arrest of Mayor Baraka for nothing more than carrying out his duties to the citizens of Newark is yet another outrage perpetrated by a lawless administration.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP Full statement: aft.org/press-release/…

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. 92–97% of experts

Across 300,000 papers published in top 100 economics journals, more than 90% of claims use language that is causal while less than 10% are actually using causal inference methods.

entire fullbright board resigns citing claims of trump admin interference saying their legacy depends on “the integrity of the program’s selection process based on merit, not ideology, and its insulation from political interference. that integrity is now undermined.”

Nice experiment. Suggests there may not be a tradeoff between knowledge and polarizing effects of social media after all ...

This is as big a prize to them as ending birthright citizenship. The idea that citizenship could be stripped for certain “crimes,” is obviously an infinitely elastic pretext. A genuine road to perdition.

This is one of America’s historically great research universities, being demolished. The obsession with Harvard and the ivies is a distraction from the ongoing destruction of America’s public research universities, once the envy of the world, and the key to the nation’s rise.

When Tony Judt praised the miracle of America's great state schools, he thought first of all of IU Bloomington, where humanities programs are currently being blown to shreds

Guy who fell to pieces over a $9 toll is happy to rip healthcare from millions