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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 25/11/2025

📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June. Deadline: 31 January 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... @rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social #EconSky

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 11/06/2025

Guy Aridor, @rafaeljjd.bsky.social‬, Ro'ee Levy, & Lena Song suggest practical ways that academic researchers can run experiments that use #socialmedia platforms, how to harness platform features, and limitations to consider when conducting such experiments. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🧵 Does toxic content drive social media engagement? ☢️ YES. But proving it isn’t straightforward. A new field experiment by @rafaeljjd.bsky.social et al. provides causal evidence that reducing exposure to toxicity lowers engagement across major platforms. Here’s what they found 👇 1/8

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @juliaseither @juliaseither.bsky.social at Universidad del Rosario who works on topics related to experimental + behavioral economics www.juliaseither.org/

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Julia Seither

Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad del Rosario

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Deadline approaching: The CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society is hosted by Bocconi University in June 2025! Submission deadline is January 31, 2025. We accept extended abstracts but priority will be given to full papers. More details: t.co/xwoWXLEBVH #econsky

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What is the best evidence that fact checking works *at scale*? And evidence on whether it outperforms Community Notes?

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Has anyone made the point that LLMs help you, not only with the info they give, but also because they sharpen your thinking by forcing you to articulate your thoughts in prompts?

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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · 10/12/2024

Out now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: a guide to research on the economics of social media platforms, by SSRC Digital Platforms Initiative participants @rafaeljjd.bsky.social, Roee Levy, Guy Aridor, and Lena Song. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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The Economics of Social Media

(December 2024) - We provide a guide to the burgeoning literature on the economics of social media. We first define social media platforms and highlight their unique features. We then synthesize the m...

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Very happy to see our review article finally in print!

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog! So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

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Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?

We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…

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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This new paper by Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán (@rafaeljjd.bsky.social), Ro’ee Levy, and Lena Song provides a precious practical guide for designing, conducting, and analyzing experiments using social media platforms #EconSky 1/4 www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A quick keyword search in here shows that this site is not really ready for the moderation challenges that come with scale. Maybe it feels safe for now because early migrators are homogeneous. But that changes fast w scale. Plus, no clear monetization -> hard to scale up a moderation team.

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Working in media economics? Don’t miss the CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, and Politics, hosted at Bocconi in June 2025! #econsky mailchi.mp/cepr/call-fo...

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Rafael Jiménez Durán @rafaeljjd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

The academic literature on social media has *exploded* recently In this new paper, we synthesize the empirical literature on the economics of social media, covering e.g. content moderation, segregation, political ads, & effects on political outcomes. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Econsky

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