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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker,
Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This paper tested my resilience in ways I can't quite remember (or I have given up). Massive thanks to the amazing co-authors Stiene Praet, Sebastian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social, Pablo Barbera, @jatucker.bsky.social and to the many dedicated reviewers!!

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Jan Zilinsky @janzilinsky.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social When it comes to health choices that seem to run counter to people's own self-interest, politics is overwhelmingly more important than individuals' cognitive styles or media diet: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Publication alert🚨 Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? “Citizens evaluate AI-attributed news as negatively as cross-cutting news sources, both in terms of attitudes (perceived trustworthiness) and behavior (willingness to read the news)” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A 10-country survey led by Coalition member @yannistheocharis.bsky.social of the Technical University of Munich Think Tank (with the University of Oxford) finds that most people support content moderation on social media to restrict harmful behavior, even as large tech companies push back. Read 👇

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Majority support moderation on social media platforms and reject unrestricted freedom of expression

Most people want harmful social media content to be restricted according to a survey in 10 countries. This also applies in the USA.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🛫 Off to Madrid for this year’s EPSA conference, where I’ll be presenting co-authored work with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social , and Molly Roberts. 💡You’ll find me in the panel “Insights into Countering Misinformation” on Friday, June 27, at 09:30 in Room 1A.13.

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🚨 New Paper 🚨 "Written for Lawyers or Users? Mapping the Complexity of Community Guidelines" Led by @mianahrgang.bsky.social, with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @friederikeq.bsky.social, @sebnagel.bsky.social & Molly Roberts, published at #ICWSM2025. 🧵Thread👇

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚨New at Tech Policy Press🚨 "What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk + Zuckerberg Are Selling" Tech execs say they’re giving users what they want—less moderation, more “free speech.” But our 10-country survey shows most people don’t want unmoderated spaces. They want balance + protections.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thoughtful study shows that many countries want moderation to suppress hate speech and misinformation - but not so much in the US! @yannistheocharis.bsky.social led this work!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

US least supportive of content moderation vs. hate speech and misinformation versus nine other countries tumthinktank.de/wp-content/u...

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media! 📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02... More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇

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Gewalt im Internet: Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien

Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Gewalt im Internet“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien“.

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🚨 New Preview of Our Upcoming Report 🚨 Leaked Meta guidelines suggest harmful speech like "Immigrants are filthy pieces of shit" or "Gays are freaks" may soon be allowed. Does this policy shift reflect public opinion? Our survey across 10 countries finds no evidence of support for such content.

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Contrary to Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that replacing fact-checkers with "community notes" will enhance free expression, this move does not seem intended to satisfy US users’ supposed craving for a return to Meta’s "free speech roots." The reality is far more nuanced.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1) Maybe it seems small potatoes, but blaming politicized fact-checkers and ops people for content moderation systems not working and over censoring is a total lie. Don't blame poor trust & safety workers for implementing the convoluted politics and messy policicies that come from the C-suite! 2/

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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · 07/01/2025

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @franziskapradel.bsky.social , @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social find that exposure to uncivil or intolerant posts did not lead to majority support for content moderation by platforms. cambridge.org/core/journal...

When is speech on social media toxic enough to warrant content moderation? Platforms impose limits on what can be posted online, but also rely on users’ reports of potentially harmful content. Yet we know little about what users consider inadmissible to public discourse and what measures they wish to see implemented. Building on past work, we conceptualize three variants of toxic speech: incivility, intolerance, and violent threats. We present results from two studies with pre-registered randomized experiments (Study 1, N=5,130; Study 2, N=3,734) to examine how these variants causally affect users’ content moderation preferences. We find that while both the severity of toxicity and the target of the attack matter, the demand for content moderation of toxic speech is limited. We discuss implications for the study of toxicity and content moderation as an emerging area of research in political science with critical implications for platforms, policymakers, and democracy more broadly.

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🧵The study everyone here is talking about does NOT provide evidence that Twitter/X pushed a pro-Republican home timeline ranking change in July 2023. The cascading, multiplicative effects of ranking changes likely explain the effect--details below

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Mia Nahrgang @mianahrgang.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

@friederikeq.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing co-authored work with Molly Roberts, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, and Sebastian Nagel at @apsa.bsky.social. Join us for our presentations at 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday to talk about content moderation!

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/1....

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

(As one of those devastated) Can’t believe that the NYT are actually writing about this! www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/a...

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I think influencers call this *unboxing* ✨✨✨

A box full of Anita’s book “Repression in the Digital Age”

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

[New Paper] with @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social & @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social now out in APSR! So happy with this piece which significantly reflects the trajectory of our research agenda at the Chair of Digital Governance! polisky Commsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Come and work with us at the Technical University of Munich! ⏰ Only a few more days until the deadline (January 7) for a postdoctoral researcher position at the Chair of Digital Governance on this new, exciting project: en.bidt.digital/research-pro...

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Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment (ToxicAInment) | bidt EN

This project is researching how and why toxicity becomes more permissible when it is masked as entertainment.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

📢A PhD position within my team related to our ToxicAInment project is available! Come work with us & apply innovative computational methods for substantive research about detecting, quantifying, & mitigating toxic content in (visual) online entertainment: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

I am thrilled to share that our project with @dianarieger.bsky.social & @cschwem2er.bsky.social "Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment" has received funding from the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation! en.bidt.digital/research-pro...

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Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment (ToxicAInment) | bidt EN

This project is researching how and why toxicity becomes more permissible when it is masked as entertainment.

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich. - 3 years - Focus: online toxicity, experiments, causal inference - Deadline: January 7 - Starting: April 2024 polisky Commsky csssky More portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

My book “Repression in the Digital Age” is out tomorrow with OUP! ✨✨✨ You can order it here (and there is a lil' savings code in the picture they sent me 😊): global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Flyer showing the book cover for "Repression in the Digital Age" by Anita Gohdes. includes a promo code to get 30% off when ordering the book (code: ASFLYQ6).

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Antonis Kalogeropoulos @antoniskalog.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

We are hiring a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/post...

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Hugely excited about our workshop on Content Moderation & Free Speech on Social Media starting tomorrow at the TUM @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and I cant wait to welcome an incredible lineup of researchers and people from the policy and tech arena for 2 days of intense discussions! polisky commsky

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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

What is the best sampling approach for multilingual texts? In our new paper in Computational Communication Research, we (Sean-Kelly Palicki, Wouter van Atteveldt, Alice Beazer, & Isaac Bravo) find that experts know best www.aup-online.com/content/jour... commsky polcomm polisky PolDataSky

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

My book on data management is available #OpenAccess at www.cambridge.org/core/books/d... ! Also, check out the companion webpage at dmbook.org. I hope that the book will be useful for your research and teaching.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Wildly dangerous to public health if partisanship continues to contaminate opinion on other vaccines. Diseases don't care what party you like www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

“Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach” (with Sven-Oliver Proksch) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science! Paper (PDF): muellerstefan.net/papers/bjps_... polisky cssky 1/5

Abstract: Traditional research on political parties pays little attention to the temporal focus of communication but usually concentrates on promises, issue attention, and policy positions. This lack of scholarly attention is surprising, given that voters respond to nostalgic rhetoric and may even adjust issue positions when policy is framed in nostalgic terms. This article presents a novel dataset, PolNos, which contains six text-based measures of nostalgic rhetoric in 1,648 party manifestos across 24 European democracies from 1946 to 2018. The measures combine dictionaries, word embeddings, sentiment approaches, and supervised machine learning. Our analysis yields a consistent result: nostalgia is most prevalent in manifestos of culturally conservative parties, notably Christian democratic, nationalist, and radical right parties. However, substantial variation remains in terms of regional differences and whether nostalgia concerns the economy or culture. We discuss the implications a

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Our article Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers is finally out! Please share with your students, and consider add this on your graduate scope and methods class. Also, we appreciate feedback and talk with students about our ideas!

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Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers

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Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

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