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Really important read on the massive uptick in the use of language that we know leads to dehumanization- where opponents are not just wrong but “evil”: “Republicans have more than quadrupled their use of divisive rhetoric since the early 2010s” 👇👇👇 nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/…

Yes, the deeply polarizing rhetoric from 2020 election-denying Republican lawmakers has gotten worse. ⁦Jennifer Valentino-DeVries⁩ and ⁦Steve Eder⁩ have spent the last few months measuring it nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/…

I want to give a huge shout out to Patrick Y. Wu, a postdoc NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics, who put in a ton of effort working with Jennifer Valentino-DeVries to run the The New York Times Twitter data through a classifier we've been developing NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics. And thanks to Jennifer Valentino-DeVries for patiently listening to us!

The The New York Times has now authorized $400 million in stock buybacks and more in dividends, enriching shareholders and executives. But it's fighting against a $65k salary floor and raises that keep up with inflation. It's a failure by our leaders to live up to the values they espouse.

In this piece, Storybench sat down with The New York Times reporters Jennifer Valentino-DeVries & Michael Keller to talk about the conception of their investigation into the dangers facing child influencers, some of the challenges they overcame and how they visualized their data. buff.ly/3UiXAOh

"They are presenting themselves as committed to fighting antisemitism, but they’re actually mainstreaming some of the most antisemitic ideas in circulation today," a professor of Israel studies told us. My latest, with Karen Yourish Danielle Ivory nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/…

I'll be doing a Reddit AMA with Michael Keller on Monday about our investigation into child influencers on Instagram, particularly the ecosystem in which girls are managed by their parents and followed by adult men. Submit questions ahead of time at this link! reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment…