Three BIG shifting dynamics:
• Algorithms are dominating.
• AI content generation is breaking the link between platforms and human content creation.
• Public posting is decreasing dramatically, with conversations moving to non-public facing channels.
Read more:
New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We examine the dynamics of citizens’ trust in public media during government-led efforts to implement major media reforms in a highly polarized context using two cross-sectional experiments. After Pol...
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When does punishing free riders help groups cooperate, and when does it backfire?
A Science Magazine paper by Team Scientists @dgrand.bsky.social, Duncan Watts, Abdullah Almaatouq & co-author suggests the answer depends heavily on context.
https://bit.ly/4uqUZm0
Despite decades of research, the conditions under which punishment promotes cooperation remain unclear. Through an integrative experiment varying 14 design parameters of public goods games across 360 experimental conditions (147,618 decisions from 7100 ...
Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself.
AI poses serious risks to that foundation.
New paper on epistemic risks by 30 experts calls for attention and proposes solutions. Link in thread.
New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5)
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The Wall Street Journal had a conversation with @dgrand.bsky.social, a professor at Cornell University and co-author of the three papers, about how debunkbots can talk people out of believing conspiracy theories and what humans can learn from the endeavor.
(WSJ-unlocked)
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There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Research on misinformation has expanded rapidly over the past decade. This review examines areas of consensus and contention within the literature on misinforma
Very excited to share that I'll be joining Social and Decision Sciences @cmu.edu as an assistant professor in the Fall!
So grateful to everyone who has supported me, particularly my amazing advisors @dgrand.bsky.social & Rahul Bhui, family, & friends!
Opinion Today
New study finds that correcting false health claims directly is as effective or more effective than trying to discredit the source, even if they lack expertise.
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