Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 08/06/2026⚖️ Courts are emerging as central actors in technology governance. The new TRAL Tracker brings together tech-related lawsuits and regulatory actions across jurisdictions, helping users monitor how courts and regulators respond to emerging technology issues. 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... 041
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Not one but TWO awesome positions available with KGI - both for early career folks. We are so excited to fill these positions, come work with us! 031
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Developed by KGI, @techjusticelaw.bsky.social & USC Neely Center, Designing Technology Remedies draws on lessons from FTC enforcement, public health litigation, civil rights settlements, and technology-related cases, and presents remedies to: ✅ Prevent harm ✅ Mitigate risks ✅ Strengthen governance 101
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 14/04/20262025 was a huge year for us at KGI! Can't wait to see what 2026 holds. :) 030
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Are social media feeds making us more polarized – or is the story more complicated? Join us this Thursday (10-11:30am ET) at Georgetown's Tech & Society Week 2026 as we unpack what the evidence actually says about algorithms & polarization. In person + livestream 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/events/desig... 031
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026We’re hiring! KGI is seeking an Operations Associate to provide operational support for budgeting, people processes, events, and internal + external comms. This position is hybrid and must be based in Washington, D.C. Apply by April 6, 2026: kgi.georgetown.edu/operations-a... 012
Reposted by Leticia Bode Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Join us next week Friday, March 20, for a presentation by @leticiabode.bsky.social and @pfchap.bsky.social on "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". Registration required via events.gwdg.de/event/1260/events.gwdg.deBetter Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform DataOnline platforms and services shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, but the ability to study these posts and content at scale has steadily diminished. Platforms restrict researcher a... 196
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 06/03/2026How do social media algorithms shape social and political polarization? Join KGI at Georgetown's Tech & Society Week for “Designing for Democracy: Social Media Feeds in a Hyper-Polarized World.” 📆 Mar 26, 10-11:30AM ET 📍Georgetown Capitol Campus + livestream 🎟️ kgi.georgetown.edu/events/desig...kgi.georgetown.eduDesigning for Democracy: Social Media Feeds in a Hyper-Polarized World – Knight-Georgetown Institute 041
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 17/02/2026My latest collaboration with students! Studying how promoted posts frame the use of alternatives to hormonal birth control. Framing Fertility: The Use of Rhetorical Appeals in Natural Cycles’ Sponsored Content on Instagram. Free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comFraming Fertility: The Use of Rhetorical Appeals in Natural Cycles’ Sponsored Content on InstagramFertility apps, which help users track their menstrual cycles, are growing in popularity. To better understand how these fertility apps communicate to consumers, we consider rhetorical appeals made... 020
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This new report from @knightgtown.bsky.social @pfchap.bsky.social @matt-steinberg.bsky.social shows the substantial gap between platform risk assessments and their actual approaches to mitigating risk. (1/13) 132
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Lots of people talking about age assurance these days, but little about how it actually works - what core tradeoffs are built into the technology, in terms of baseline accuracy, circumvention resistance, availability, and privacy. The new KGI report digs into these weedy issues, check it out! 011
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Registration for the Digital Competition Conference 2026 is now open to the public!📍Feb 5-6, 2026 | Washington, DC in person + livestream DCC is where cutting-edge research meets policy on antitrust & digital competition. 🎟️ Secure your free ticket here: kgi.georgetown.edu/events/digit... 011
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 13/01/2026🚨Why does access to public platform data matter? Join our webinar "Better Access: Data for the Common Good" (Jan 28, 2026, 11am-12pm ET) for a discussion on the Better Access framework, current regulatory shifts in the EU, UK + US, and what changes 2026 might hold. kgi.georgetown.edu/events/bette... 023
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Love this practice ranked choice voting ballot from DC board of elections, ranking your favorite singers. (Even better would be if it validated at the end whether you did it right or not.) vr.dcboe.org/253434754272...vr.dcboe.orgRanked Choice Voting SingersPlease click the link to complete this form. 000
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Please share with all the awesome applicants you know! 011
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025We recently concluded a special article series, “Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data,” in collaboration with the Knight-Georgetown Institute, in which experts explored why access to public platform data is critical. Here’s a snapshot: (1/9) 11411
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.buff.lyWhy Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.PressBrandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access. 24923
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Think platform data from social media only matters for election or disinformation research? Think again. George Pearson, a researcher at the Truth Initiative, shows it’s vital for public health—revealing how tobacco companies can target youth, dodge regulations, and influence policy.techpolicy.pressWhy Platform Data is Essential to Public Health Efforts in Tobacco Control | TechPolicy.PressSocial media platforms are a key avenue for tobacco control research, but as George Pearson argues data access barriers hinder efforts to monitor impacts. 052
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 07/11/2025📣Announcing our new series with @techpolicypress.bsky.social "Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data". Should we be able to understand the risks kids face online? How businesses target consumers? How politicians communicate? These qs depend on access to public platform data. 👇 142
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Another in our series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. This week’s elections show how central social media has become to campaigns with politicians on nearly every platform. But as Josephine Lukito and Kaitlyn Dowling explain, access to this data is shrinking.buff.lyThere is More Online Election Discourse than Ever, But Researchers See Less | TechPolicy.PressJosephine Lukito and Kaitlyn Dowling explore why public social media data is vital for transparent elections and accountability in the digital campaign era. 001
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 06/11/2025📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... 067
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with KGI, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from Leticia Bode & Peter Chapman. www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d... 183
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Come work with us! We are a fun and scrappy team. :) 020
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 14/10/2025It must be weird to be a kid in DC ("free lemonade until the government shutdown is over!") . 😂 030
Reposted by Leticia Bode Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid): 413554
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Come hang out with us and talk about data access! #tsrconf 043
Reposted by Leticia Bode The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 19/08/2025From funding gaps to legal threats, the report shows what blocks public interest research - but also affirms our shared belief: that independent technology research is key to a just, transparent, and equitable digital future. Read and share! (2/2) independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...independenttechresearch.orgThe State of Independent Technology Research 2025A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it. 044
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...academic.oup.comIntroductionAbstract. This chapter introduces the core concept of the book, observed correction, which occurs when direct public corrections of misinformation are witn 3115
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 05/08/2025There's nothing better than seeing a student project all the way through to publication! 🤩 Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comHow was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizationsIn 2021, the Texas state legislature passed a bill (SB8) prohibiting abortion after six weeks and facilitating lawsuits against providers and aiders of abortions. In order to understand the nature ... 181
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Feel this in my bones (via @dandrezner.bsky.social ). "it’s been a shitty week on top of a shitty month on top of a shitty year." 250
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Any DC friends thinking about adopting a pet? Fees are waived this Saturday! 122
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Tennis player Emma Raducanu on DC heat: "Different level...I think the humidity here as well, it just makes it feel completely like you have just opened an oven and it just stayed open and your head is in there.” Yep. wapo.st/4fi8bTMwapo.stLeylah Fernandez’s marathon of an upset sends her to the DC Open finalThe young Canadian sweated out a rally past Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina to advance in three sets. She’ll face Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in Sunday’s final. 020
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I really want to make progress on my towering stacks of books to be read this fall (partly just because at some point they will fall over and crush me and while that would be a totally appropriate way for me to die, I'd still prefer to avoid it). 130
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Stupid questions for folks in information integrity spaces. Where did the 3 D's concept (downrank, deplatform, demonetize) originate? @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social @bgoldberg.bsky.social @alexleavitt.bsky.social @commscholar.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social @jianingli.bsky.social 120
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 09/07/2025This book wouldn't exist without Andy's support way back in 2017! 160
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 01/07/2025@alissacooper.bsky.social, upon hearing I used to have a pet snake: "Yea, that's on brand." 😆 010
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Special issue of Political Communication CFP on "the political communication dynamics at work in democratic decline—and in democratic resilience" - full manuscripts due December 15. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...think.taylorandfrancis.comCommunicating Democratic Decline & Resilience 11910
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 01/07/2025One of the fun parts of my job as research director at KGI is occasionally briefing my colleagues on exciting new research. What are y'all seeing/doing lately on platform design, tech competition, or other related topics? 001
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Must read for anyone interested in tech competition policy. 000
Reposted by Leticia Bode Center for Communication & Civic Renewal @cccr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025None of 10 Trump actions we asked about win majority support. The closest are deportation at 49% & Ukraine aid cuts at 41%. Trump cuts to university grants are least popular at 32%, & the rest fall between 32% & 39% Reps are roughly 60% more supportive than Dems across all actions. 4/ 2136
Reposted by Leticia Bode Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 20/06/2025How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation." Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors." 03815
Reposted by Leticia Bode Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 17/06/2025How can platforms build better algorithmic feeds? Pinterest shares its approach: using user surveys to guide its recommender system – reducing harm and increasing relevance. Here’s how it works 👇 medium.com/pinterest-en... 🧵medium.comHealthier Personalization with SurveysLeif Sigerson | Senior Data Scientist, Data Platforms Science, Stephanie Chen | Staff Quantitative Product Researcher, Product Research… 113
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 04/06/2025"The thing about government that tech leaders miss is that what looks like inefficiency is often a feature, not a bug. The checks and balances, the deliberation, the seemingly redundant processes." Was just saying this to a reporter today! 1419
Reposted by Leticia Bode martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025🗞️ Our special issue on "Connective Democracy and Political Divisiveness" is out in Social Media + Society Edited by Dr. Gina Masullo (@ginammasullo.bsky.social) and myself, a project of the Center for Media Engagement (@engagingnews.bsky.social) TOC: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... Thread 🔽 21911
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025US federal government spending is higher in 2025 than 2024. 057
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 23/04/2025"these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good." 1/3 121
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The only thing lowering my blood pressure these days is listening to @guster.bsky.social on repeat. Thanks y'all. 101
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 11/04/2025New publication co-authored with some of my amazing students! This started as a project in my content analysis course. :) (50 free copies at the link) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MCM9X...tandfonline.comAssessing Menstrual Stigma: A Content Analysis of Menstrual Product Posts on Two Chinese Social Media PlatformsMenstruation in China is plagued by persistent misconceptions and stigmatization. Although social media serve as a crucial information source that shapes public views and challenges misunderstandin... 040
Reposted by Leticia Bode CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Now, @leticiabode.bsky.social, Riley, and Kunjika study technology-facilitated gender-based violence. We're seeing this more and more in "Manosphere" communities. #CARP5 #CARPV 131