AI News Lurks in Austin. Who’s Behind It?

Federal government's social media posts on X, formerly Twitter, are drawing far more engagement under Trump than Biden, new Pew data shows.

New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities

Now we know what we've long suspected: People really use and rely on their local Facebook groups, Nextdoor neighborhoods, and WhatsApp group chats, but they…

The Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award is given for the best book published in the field of political psychology during the previous calendar year. Befitting ...

How often do political elites in the U.S. share low-quality news sources? Are there differences between the parties? While past work has investigated individuals sharing low-quality news sources, t...

Eric Schurenberg discusses Trust in Media with Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas, Austin

Listen to this episode from The Gist on Spotify. The 2016 election posed questions we still haven't fully answered about our elections, but today's guest, Dartmouth professor and elections researcher ...

The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

Large-scale experiments on social media, run behind the scenes during the 2020 election, suggest there is no simple fix for American democracy.