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Key outcomes tomorrow: -Do losing candidates concede defeat? -Do Rs embrace election denial? 🚨New Bright Line Watch reports🚨 -In 2020, 1 in 5 losing Rs refused to concede brightlinewatch.org/refusing-to-ad… -Denial tweets mostly by just a few state legislators brightlinewatch.org/the-big-lie-am…

Trump's pick for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, joined Fox News as a contributor at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has remained on the payroll ever since. Another example of the Fox-to-Trump pipeline

Trump is using Fox as a staffing agency, again. Here’s what comes next: mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-f…

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Covered in today's NYT by Charles Homans After Trump’s Victory, Republicans Trust the Election System Again

My latest for Nieman Lab! The Mis/Disinformation Paradigm has proven insufficient for understanding and counteracting Trump's appeal. Journalism should embrace right-wing studies instead. niemanlab.org/2024/12/right-…

In the editorial Curd Knüpfer reflects on the rapid transformations in political communication & the need to reassess our field’s normative foundations. He emphasizes the importance of self-reflection, & respectful engagement within the PolComm-community. politicalcommunication.org/article/pcr-30…

A BERT classifier outperformed a GPT classifier in detecting connective language on social media, finds Jo(sephine) Lukito Dr. Gina M. Masullo, Phd. Talia Stroud, with an interesting analysis on how connective language relates to other types of language doi.org/10.18653/v1/20…

Check out my latest, in The Philadelphia Inquirer! J6 wasn’t an example of democratic institutions holding in the face of growing right authoritarian impulses. It was the high watermark for the stubborn fiction that our institutions are truly democratic at all: share.inquirer.com/5usMVb

I'm on WBUR's Here and Now, right about now, discussing the tumultuous state of the Washington Post and the wider news media world 👂🏼 🎙️ wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

What the Preisdent Can and Cannot Do (a little primer). casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-power-of…

ICYMI my colleague Evan Osnos profiled our new deputy director of the FBI: Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

More evidence that rightwing media are not just news outlets -- they are political organizations.

NPR coverage npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-… Latest Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-tr…

My book has a pub date and website!

We document the researchers' desired data access and provide recommendations for platforms, researchers, and policymakers. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877 Podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d33a3… With the amamzing Kayo Mimizuka, Megan A. Brown, and Jo(sephine) Lukito 3/3