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Timothy Graham

@timothyjgraham.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every few weeks I think about this and remember how amazing the internet was in the 1990s, and all we have lost in the era of commodified social media Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds (published one year ago) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Absolutely chuffed that my PhD thesis Envisaging simulation and its limits: Large Language Models From Architecture, to Interface, to Ideology has passed examination with no revisions and was nominated by both examiners to receive an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award :D
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Very interesting new social media data collection tool. Top of the reading list 👀 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01460
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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reports suggest US agencies are using over-classification to hide embarrassing information which violates US law restricting classification to national security requirements. steadystate1.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
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An Open Letter to Current Federal National Security Employees Regarding Classification
The Steady State
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Latest research from our "Dark Political Communication" ARC Discovery Project. Large-scale data analysis showing how markets respond to Donald Trump's posts BEFORE he posts them. Kindly republished via QUT Media @qutdmrc.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth... #politics #trump #finance
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For a while now, Stephen Harrington, Ella Chorazy and I have been looking at how financial markets respond to Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social. This research is part of our ARC Discovery Proje...
For a while now, Stephen Harrington, Ella Chorazy and I have been looking at how financial markets respond to Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social. This research is part of our ARC Discovery Project o...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is Andriy, he was only 15, a 9th-grade student. Yesterday, a Russian missile strike Pryluky killed him🕯💔 ​Witnesses say he was simply walking down the street when a missile fragment pierced his chest and abdomen. He later passed away in the hospital from his injuries.
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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is making a massive fantasy proc-gen world to explore, with puzzles, secrets, and lost artifacts to discover. What special things will players find in your turn-based game? Follow @Byte-Arcane.itch.io and show us in tomorrow's thread!
Sigil of Kings, by @byte-arcane.itch.io
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A truly fascinating visualization (which we only can dream of for our reports) Also an impressive hypothesis —which will hopefully survive peer review.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Something strange is happening in the markets just before President Trump posts on Truth Social. Our latest article (with @phzerosounds.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy) tells a visual story via a large-scale empirical analysis. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...
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The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
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Stephen Harrington @phzerosounds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Very happy to have this piece out in @aunz.theconversation.com today, alongside my good colleagues @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy, looking at weird stuff happening in the oil markets before Trump posts to Truth Social. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...
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The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This gives me great hope
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Three people in a church, sitting behind each other in the rows. The front one is rationality. The one behind is ideology, pointing a gun at rationality. The one behind that is class, pointing a gun at ideology. Zoom out and you see all three are targeted by a sniper, from far back of the church on high ground: it is Polymarket
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
2026: every world event is now also a conspiracy theory about Polymarket insider trading Time to update all social theory for the new ontological a priori: gambling
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Latest thought from me regarding how platforms - in this case Twitter/X - shape the operation of truth in the 21st century. Drawing especially on the work of @jaysonharsin.bsky.social and @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social in this article. journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
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Truth Markets and the Consensus Trap | M/C Journal
Epistemic Infrastructure At 13:07 on 23 April 2013, the Associated Press (AP) tweeted: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is Injured”. Within seconds, automated trading sy...
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Truly an honour to contribute to this special issue alongside this all-star lineup of scholars. RIP Twitter 🪦 and thank you @snurb.info and @hermida.bsky.social for bringing this special issue together 🙏
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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So happy to have my first journal article published today! I argue that LLMs animate a paradox in which similarity only emerges through difference. I show how this paradox is operationalised by LLMs as they generate a natural language response (1/2) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Inside a social media bot farm
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/04/2026
We've built a searchable & visual database of every X's Community Notes ever proposed. 2 million & counting. The dashboard displays both visible notes (those shown publicly on X) & not-yet-visible notes (proposed notes that have not yet met the visibility thresholds). notetracker.socialmedialab.ca
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Daily reminder: do not give Tucker Carlson any attention. He is a grifter and a sophist, and he is part of the reason we are here right now facing domestic threats to global peace and wellbeing.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Late capitalism mask off
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
FIFA World Peace Prize material right here. This is a sickening sentence for anyone to utter - let alone the sitting US President.
Trump saying a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Latest commentary from me on war propaganda and media manipulation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Israel posts fake photo of journalist it killed in strike
The IDF has admitted the image of a killed journalist in military uniform it posted on its official X account was faked.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Latest commentary from me and @snurb.info in this excellent investigative piece by Michael Workman and the ABC NEWS Verify team Generative AI and its intersection with engagement-driven social media logics continues to be a thorn in the side of democracy... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How have I only just discovered this game? Spoilers: it does have some graphic content at the end, but it speaks so much to our media system and the attention economy ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
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We Become What We Behold by Nicky Case!
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation. tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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AI-generated Iran war videos surge as creators use new tech to cash in
The US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with AI-generated misinformation.
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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 10/02/2026
Really interesting new paper from some of my former @gesis.org colleagues in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies" doi.org/10.1177/2053... #commsky #computationalsocialscience
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From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies - Luisa Golland, Oliver Watteler, Jonas Recker, Jan Schwalbach, Libby Bishop, 2026
Archiving data is a crucial practice, as it ensures reproducibility of research and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re...
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Aaaand here comes the fan mail
The epitome of ideologically-infused motivated reasoning and too much internet
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning. I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
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A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
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Scott @smadin.net · 17/02/2026
unfortunately evergreen
tweet by Catherine na Nollag (@cafernblue):
"i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said 'people change their minds when you show them facts' and I said 'actually studies show that's not true' and linked TWO sources and he said 'yeah well I still think it works'"
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨🚨🚨The Berlin Court of Appeal ruled today that @democracyreporting.bsky.social (DRI) is entitled to publicly available data from X to conduct research on election interference and disinformation on X in connection with the elections in Hungary 🗳️ 🇭🇺 democracy-reporting.org/en/office/EU...
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 16/02/2026
Tim. No. Just no.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Academics in 2026
Mugatu meme:

LinkedIn

So hot right now
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
New book now coming out very soon. Next month!
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
One does not simply submit an online form without first copying the entire contents to the clipboard
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Why was Reddit overrun with accounts named “__-anus—__fungi_”, spamming 🍄 emojis? And what does this have to tell us about the difference between bots and humans? And whether the distinction even matters? New paper out today! With @domcarlon.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
On the Internet no one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture. A new paper by Dominique Carlon and myself
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Excellent research out of Monash, led by @markandrejevic.bsky.social. 79% of adults (n=1,598) surveyed support the government’s under-16 social media ban www.monash.edu/news/article...
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4 in 5 Australian adults support social media ban for kids
A new survey shows almost four out of five Australian adults support the Australian government’s social media ban for children under 16.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Any time Sky News Australia comes up in discourse, please feel most welcome and free to cite this research, which shows empirically that is is a propaganda machine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sky News Australia as network propaganda: how a niche cable channel became an international right-wing propaganda machine - Simon Copland, Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham, 2025
In the past decade or so, the right-wing news channel, Sky News Australia, has pivoted to publishing online content that speaks to broadly right-wing audiences ...
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Can’t wait to see all the politicians and opinion leaders crying outrage over the widespread child abuse and misogyny on X, from their still-active X accounts www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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French police raid X offices in Paris as Musk summoned to hearing
A widening probe into the platform is investigating alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction.
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Read Them Sideways podcast is back from summer hiatus! Our first episode of 2026 welcomes Ehsan Dehghan and Pardis Yarahmadi to discuss the ongoing Iranian digital blackout, its implications, and how digital activism can assist. An important listen for your Monday!
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The Iranian digital blackout, and how you can help (#37)
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 31/01/2026
Did you spot my new article on the shift in US government propaganda, Trump's message to the world and international reaction to it?
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICYMI, since I posted very late Friday night (and am back at work today after three weeks off), @australia.theguardian.com was the 4th biggest news website in Australia in December
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Timeless
sky news
Peta Credlin
'Greatest country on Earth': TV host gets emotional over Australia
Day significance

Followed by


Peta Credlin
'A decade of activism and anger: Reflecting on the state of the nationLate Show image saying "the country's stuffed" followed by "mind you it's the best country in the world mate"
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yesterday, I awoke to news of another ICE killing in MN. On Bluesky, the conversation was deeply critical of ICE. But I wanted to see how things were going on X. Surprisingly, the attempts there to blame the victim weren't getting as much traction as I suspected. So I wrote a thing.
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Another Killing on ICE
The right wing propaganda machine can’t spin the killing of Alex Pretti
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
BREAKING! WORLD FIRST! 🔥Australia's public broadcaster publishes extended #AtlasNetwork explainer by Gareth Hutchens. When I went on ABC radio 3 years ago to talk about the global Atlas network of 550+ orgs, no one had heard of it. Atlas HQ wanted to keep it that way. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Every sign has a story #Hakuba
A sign asking people not to bring bear spray onto the bus
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