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Nick Lewis @nicklewis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Delighted to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday at @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and that I'm now officially a doctor of political science! A huge thank you to my examiners, @caprosser.com and @nickanstead.bsky.social , for their time, insight, and thoughtful engagement with my thesis.

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Nick Lewis @nicklewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Farewell to one of the greats bsky.app/profile/hans...

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature

We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 05/12/2024

The man himself @michaelchabon.bsky.social is in the house!

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Nick Lewis @nicklewis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How does polarisation play out on social media? Looking at Twitter between 2019 and 2021, the second paper in my thesis shows political conversations being driven by users with more ideologically- and affectively-extreme views. TL;DR: t'was a bin fire even in the relatively benign pre-Musk era.

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Extremely Online? Ideological and affective polarisation on British political Twitter

In my last post, I talked about how politicians have gradually became more emotive in their Twitter rhetoric over time. Are these politicians preaching to the converted? Were Donald Trump's tweets enc...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

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Nick Lewis @nicklewis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

It’s hard to believe, but I’m nearing the end of my doctoral journey. Over the past few years, I’ve been researching how social media influences democratic deliberation, and I’m excited to share a series of posts about what I’ve discovered. #socialmedia #politicalcommunication #research

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Emotion trumps reason?

``Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.

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Nick Lewis @nicklewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

📱 Is the Presidential race the 'TikTok election'? 🗣 Are politicians becoming more extreme in their online rhetoric? 💻 Why do people avoid discussing politics on social media? 🎙 I chatted with Chris at the LSE United States Centre about these questions and more 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUT...

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LSE: The Ballpark | The social media spiral of silence with Nick Lewis

YouTube video by LSE Phelan US Centre

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Nice piece from @stephenkb.bsky.social on loving the economy we actually have on.ft.com/3HjyVTt

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Not a fan of posting X stuff here but those who care about disinformation and electoral integrity might care about this X ‘policy update’. Polisky commsky polcomm

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

We are excited about a new year of Political Behaviour Seminars at the LSE! As usually, you can either come along in-person, or join us remotely at 4pm GMT, by signing up to our email list via gov.comms@lse.ac.uk. More info: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r... Looking forward to it!

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