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Catherine King

@kingcatherine.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Policy @cmus3d.bsky.social @scsatcmu.bsky.social | Recent PhD graduate in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon | BS + MS from @wm.edu | kingcatherine.github.io

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Catherine King @kingcatherine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just accepted at SBP-BRiMS with @quarbby.bsky.social! We ask: how do users perceive their level of exposure to and posting of misinformation across social media platforms? arxiv.org/abs/2607.26218
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User-Reported Misinformation Exposure Across Social Media Platforms
In this study, we surveyed users for their perception of misinformation exposure across social media platforms. Such perceived exposure is important because individuals' beliefs about how often they e...
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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CMU is launching a new online professional graduate certificate program: Software Engineering with AI! www.cmu.edu/online/softw... Learn how to use AI to build software more productively, and how to effectively use AI as a component in your applications (1/3)
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<p>Consensus, Disagreements, and Open Questions in the Psychology of Misinformation</p>
Research on misinformation has expanded rapidly over the past decade. This review examines areas of consensus and contention within the literature on misinforma
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's weird to read the pope's msg cuz it echos my upcoming co-authored FAccT paper. "Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI" argues that political & economic maneuvering of those invested in the project of AI must be analyzed separately from the technical workings of AI. lnkd.in/eFgthayX
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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :) 🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps... 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 09/04/2026
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10
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Catherine King @kingcatherine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out our latest work on how perceived fairness, effectiveness, and intrusiveness influence public support for misinformation interventions!
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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 05/02/2026
Gosh, post 2/9 of the thread below had a link that required authentication, here is the direct link to the piece: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions
Multiple independent research institutions have recently and repeatedly sounded the alarm that democracy is in retreat worldwide. In the United States, a British academic has painstakingly recorded mo...
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Grok fact-checks our paper on Grok fact-checking - and it approves!
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Catherine King @kingcatherine.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Read my latest paper on media literacy, presented at last year's SBP-BRiMS Conference! Instead of studying whether training helps people detect misinformation, we investigate whether it increases willingness to actively intervene when people see it. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Promoting Social Corrections: A Media Literacy Intervention for Misinformation on Social Media
This paper examines a new approach to traditional media literacy training: encouraging social media users to engage in social corrections or other countermeasures online when they encounter misinforma...
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Catherine King @kingcatherine.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I wanted to highlight one of my favorite papers that I co-authored last year with Samantha Phillips. Surveying 1,000+ U.S. social media users, we examined how beliefs and relationships shape whether people ignore, report, or correct misinformation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/4
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Understanding User Behavior in the Fight Against Social Media Misinformation - Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS) - Carnegie Mellon University
Spotlight on new work from IDeaS researchers
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Science Feedback @sciencefeedback.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨 New report out: the first cross-platform, cross-country baseline on misinformation in Europe Based on large scale data analysis: ~2.6M posts (24B views) collected on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X & YouTube science.feedback.org/first-measurement-disinformation-major-platforms-europe
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What our first measurement says about disinformation on major platforms in Europe - Science Feedback
Science Feedback and partners have released a first measurement of Structural Indicators across six Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in four EU member states (France, Spain, Poland, Slovakia). Belo...
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Peter Carragher @pcarragher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Mapping the Scientific Literature on Misinformation Interventions: A Bibliometric Review (COMPASS workshop) workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php... @kingcatherine.bsky.social
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Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops
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Peter Carragher @pcarragher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excited to have two workshop papers and one main conference paper that I've been involved in being presented at @icwsm.bsky.social! Thanks @kingcatherine.bsky.social and @evanup.bsky.social for letting me tag along. Details below.
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
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Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.
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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media 🧪 Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. It's not good. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media - npj Complexity
npj Complexity - Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media
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nayahgram @nayahgram.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This study examines individual-level interventions against #misinformation on social media, showing that encouraging people to respond to #misinformation can reduce its spread and prevent belief in it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A path forward on online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A path forward on online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Needed: ACTION! "...participants believe individuals should expend more effort responding to misinformation on social media than those individuals report actually doing..." Study: Online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A path forward on online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A path forward on online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior
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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
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IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨New WP🚨 Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers... osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
After ending Meta's fact-checking partnerships, Mark Zuckerburg said that it had never been broadly accepted. According to a new poll by @bostonu.bsky.social, nearly 2 in 3 US adults agree that fact-checkers *should* verify claims on social media. A 🧵 (1/n). www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Americans Expect Social Media Content Moderation
Meta is ending fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, but a new BU poll finds the public backs independent verification of social media content
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
New meta-analysis shows media literacy & psychological inoculation interventions signifcantly & substantially improve (a) misinformation resilience (d = 0.60), (b) misinformation discernment (d = 0.76) and decrease sharing (d = 1.04). Great news for science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Removing the fact-checking program from Meta platforms wasn't sufficient, you can now freely claim that women are "houshold objects" and that members of the LGBTQ community are "mentally ill". What a win for free speech - Zuckerberg is revealing his true colors. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.
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Nicolas Christin @nc2y.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I am making a Societal Computing starter pack for folks that (broadly) look at the impact of computer science on society. So far, mostly people affiliated with the eponymous program in the school of computer science at CMU, but pls respond to this thread if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/2avpExM
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