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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Dave's latest is smart and worth a read (even without the kind words). But I'd phrase it differently. It's not that that era of optimization ended, per se—it's that WHAT was optimized, and for whom, changed. Exhibit A: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

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Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There's a colorable argument that a substantial part of the effectiveness of most of the major innovations in campaign communication in the last 15 years have been as a result of novel strategies to gain attention, including but not limited to social pressure GOTV mail, relational organizing, etc

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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 04/07/2025

🇺🇸 #July4 project 🇺🇸 How does ChatGPT map the Declaration’s 27 #grievances to 2025 executive actions? Scale 0-1 minor · 2 noticeable · 3 substantial · 4 ≈ average 1776 abuse · 5 worse. AI coded (o3). Thread follows ⤵︎ [1/66]

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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David Broniatowski @broniatowski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just published: our new paper in Scientific Reports 📄 “Coordinated Link Sharing on Facebook” doi.org/10.1038/s415... We introduce a statistically grounded, human-interpretable method to detect coordination on social media.

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Coordinated link sharing on Facebook - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Coordinated link sharing on Facebook

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Thrilled to have this published. Everything you've wanted to know about political Youtube -- from Kevin Munger, Jim Bisbee (@jamesbisbee.bsky.social), Omer Yalcin (@ofyalcin.bsky.social), Joe Phillips (@polpsychjoe.bsky.social), and myself. Out now in the Journal of Quantitative Description.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement. USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin... #EconSky

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/02/2025

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

These are true “holy shit” results — a huge step change in AI capabilities on the very hardest current benchmarks. For competitive coding, this is like Deep Blue beating Kasparov. We all need to update our priors on how much knowledge work AI will displace — and how quickly.

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Where does extreme right-wing rhetoric come from? In a new article in Communication Research, Yuan Hsiao and I analyze 19K videos & 661M comments on conservative YouTube channels to trace how extreme rhetoric forms. BLUF: it comes mostly from users themselves. doi.org/10.1177/0093...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/12/2024

This is a really great piece, as Ganz's work always is. I think the inconvenient thing is the civic associationism of American history was heavily driven by local religious congregations, supplemented in the 20th century by veterans groups like the VFW. It was these groups that included "normies."

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yes—but the most important shift needed here is simpler. We need less bullshit about “listening,” and more of the hard work of audience building.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A good time to (re)read @newsprof1.bsky.social @melbunce.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social on government capture of public media and its relationship to democratic backsliding global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The AI military-industrial complex is forming quickly—legacy contractors, big tech firms, and generative AI startups. I wrote about what the military and the AI industry want for @gzeromedia.bsky.social:

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The AI military-industrial complex is here

The Pentagon desperately wants technological superiority over its military rivals. And in 2024, that means it’s in hot pursuit of artificial intelligence.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This looks to be the story Penny's team referenced. It's an AI-written article by "The Pinnacle Gazette," a site run by a popular Turkish science company. The jury is anonymous, but "Martin Beck" is not one of their names, according to Penny's lawyers. AI in journalism, folks.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The convergence of Trump and Musk’s political power with ownership of social media platforms raises urgent questions about democratic accountability and unprecedented authority over communication platforms, writes Philip M. Napoli. www.techpolicy.press/platforms-an...

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Platforms and the Presidency: An Unprecedented Situation | TechPolicy.Press

The convergence of Trump and Musk’s political power with ownership of social media platforms raises urgent questions, writes Philip M. Napoli.

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David Broockman @dbroockman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We asked journalists around the world who have endured attacks on press freedom what advice they would give their American colleagues. We have collected their wise and remarkable responses in a special issue of @niemanreports.org. “Dear America,” they wrote.

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Meet OLMo 2, the best fully open language model to date, including a family of 7B and 13B models trained up to 5T tokens. OLMo 2 outperforms other fully open models and competes with open-weight models like Llama 3.1 8B — As always, we released our data, code, recipes and more 🎁

The OLMo 2 models sit at the Pareto frontier of training FLOPs vs model average performance.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Pollsters weighted more in 2024 – and it helped. Adjustments for education and past vote made national and state polls more accurate. Read the story: goodauthority.org/news/pollste...

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Pollsters in the 2024 U.S. election came close.

Pollsters weighted their survey samples more aggressively than ever before, and polls were more accurate in 2024.

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lokman tsui @lokman.org · 25/11/2024

A new report on how Chinese pro-PRC disinformation continues to spread on supposedly independent news websites around the globe, from Google's Threat Analysis Group. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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Seeing Through a GLASSBRIDGE: Understanding the Digital Marketing Ecosystem Spreading Pro-PRC Influence Operations | Google Cloud Blog

GLASSBRIDGE is an umbrella group of four different companies that operate networks of inauthentic news sites and newswire services.

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries

Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI, NYT lawyers spent 150 hours combing through OAI's training data. OpenAI engineers *erased it* and admitted to erasing it. Had to be pretty incriminating. The NYT is now unable to get that data back. This should be a serious scandal.

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David Broockman @dbroockman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

With Fox News hosts nominated for the cabinet, I wanted to share takeaways from two recently-accepted papers w @jkalla.bsky.social on partisan TV. There's been much skepticism that partisan TV actually affects public opinion. Our findings rebut that skepticism: partisan media matters! 🧵

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Please repost this new Pew Research Center internship opportunity for winter 2025. We're looking for interns who (will) reside in DC/MD/VA or PA & do (in-person/remote) coding work for a project on religious restrictions around the world. $17.50/hr. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Image of text saying We are looking for recent grads or current students to join us for a 12 to 14-week long paid internship between January 2025 and April 2025 (opportunities may exist to extend). You will need to commit to 37.5 hours per week for the entire period, during regular business hours. Interns will be paid $17.50 /hour.
You will work as a Coder and research information on government restrictions on religion as well as religious hostilities and violence. Coders will use content analysis research methods and comb through major international reports such as the U.S. State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom reports and conflict databases.
Education/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Recently graduated or currently in undergraduate studies with an interest in religion, world affairs, and/or other topics relevant to the study of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion.
• Previous coding (content analysis) experience, qualitative research experience or work in similar research projects is an advantage, but not required.
• Basic familiarity with Excel is required.
• Detail oriented with exacting standards to maintain accuracy and impartiality in all work products.
• Ability to work well in a team setting. Ability to take instructions and follow through well. Ability to work diligently under deadlines.
• ·Ability to communicate clearly in a remote work environment, including documenting coding notes, questions and decisions appropriately and clearly.
• Ability to read through lengthy reports and code relevant information.
• Previous experience working with a team remotely is an advantage, but not required.
This is a full-time position located in Washington, DC. Interns have the option to work in the office or remotely.
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Salary: $17.50 per hour
Location: Hybrid or Remote

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Biggest regret is not listening to Kevin Munger more kmunger.github.io/pdfs/the-you...

Munger’s “The YouTube Apparatus” - pg 72

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

My hunch is that 2024 will be the year when the AI industry is visited by the Ghost of Napster. AI evangelists keep insisting that old copyright law is going to have to bend to accommodate new technology. They have that backward. (My latest, at Foreign Policy): foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/31/a...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

They’re just gonna Gamergate anybody they don’t like the look of. That’s what’s gonna happen for the next year. They’ll say you’re doing a communism or a DEI and come up with a reason the news likes later. It’ll happen to a lot of people. You’re just gonna have to hope regular people get sick of it.

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Nir Grinberg @nirg.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉 Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election. doi.org/10.1177/1940... 🧵👇

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

"Let them fight!" The latest @davekarpf.bsky.social missive on the OpenAI fiasco is, as usual, essential reading: davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-openai-...

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 17/11/2023

In case literally anyone in the tech industry has any wildly radioactive bad news they're trying to bury, now would be the ideal moment, just saying.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 17/11/2023

More like Sam Deleteman send tweet

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

This is a bad decision & ridiculous justification: “Executives at Meta made the decision based on free-speech considerations after weighing past U.S. elections in which the results might have been contested by a portion of the electorate.” www.wsj.com/tech/meta-al...

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WSJ News Exclusive | Meta Allows Ads Claiming Rigged 2020 Election on Facebook, Instagram

Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year

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soodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

@mattgraham.bsky.social and Omer Yair show that expressive responding inflates partisan gaps on the ability to discern facts and opinions correctly. 1/3 m-graham.com/papers/Graha...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I have a theory of that fwiw programmablemutter.substack.com/p/shitpostin...

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Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Great (and important!) new piece on what we miss on when we just collect social media data based just on keywords.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

"We estimate that harmful content on Facebook lowered US vaccination intentions by 2.3 percentage points per Facebook user... this effect was driven predominantly by vaccine-skeptical content from mainstream sites, rather than outright misinformation published by fringe outlets" psyarxiv.com/nwsqa

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

My latest, at Substack: “does anyone think Twitter gets *better* from here? (I’m done.)” open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

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Does anyone think Twitter gets *better* from here

I'm done.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/07/2023

Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”

The goal isn't to replace Twitter. The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter.

Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads - they have on Instagram as well to some extent - but we're not going to do anything to encourage those verticals.

Politics and hard news are important, I don't want to imply otherwise. But my take is, from a platform's perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue they might drive is not at all worth the scrutiny, negativity (let's be honest), or integrity risks that come along with them.

There are more than enough amazing communities – sports, music, fashion, beauty, entertainment, etc – to make a vibrant platform without needing to get into politics or hard news.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

1. tinyurl.com/yc68rbxa So Cosma Shalizi and I have a piece in the Economist on shoggoths. The Large Language Models driving ChatGPT and Bing are indeed Lovecraftian monsters. But so too are markets, bureaucracies, and even democracy, if squinted at askance.

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