Really excited that our book just came out!

The Power of the Crowd:
How the Public Can Both Spoil and Improve Social Media as a Source of Information

Open access for the next 2 weeks!

Out now at @poqjournal.bsky.social! Do election forecasts set realistic election expectations? doi.org/10.1093/poq/... 🧵 (w/ @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social and other awesome BlueSky-less colleagues)

Out now and open access at @ispp-pops.bsky.social (with @florianstoeckel.bsky.social)! How deep does animosity between Leavers and Remainers go, and years out from the Brexit referendum, does it remain? 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Ah, good company. Someone else from the Debunker lab and I got a desk reject from them for a paper just a few days later.

Can social media users help others spot misinformation by posting comments that flag false content?

Yes, but there is a downside

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600

With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social

New article out in Communications Psychology, with team led by @florianstoeckel.bsky.social & Sabrina Stöckli

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My takeaway would be that in low-motivation settings, presence of a refutation matters more than its strength, accuracy, etc.

Wo steht das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht politisch? Und kann generative AI uns bei einer Einordnung helfen?

BSW: Einordnung auf Basis des BSW-Gründungsmanifests.

Andere Parteien: unklar auf welcher Basis ChatGPT einordnet, insbses. im Vgl. zu üblichen Verfahren (Expertsurvey, Manifesto-Kodierung).

4/n I will try to foster discussions on what we can do about it, both inside & outside of the classroom (e.g.: www.AImeetsPolitics.org).

Please get in touch if you are also working on this and want to discuss the topic or collaborate on research.

3/n For early work and reasons, see for instance Smriti Parsheera's paper from 2018 ("A Gendered Perspective on Artificial Intelligence"), though there is obviously much more.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

2/n The new opportunities that ChatGPT & other applications offer are truly mind-blowing (at least for me). What's also mind-blowing is the extent to which AI applications and LLMs are reproducing stereotypes and biases. There is thankfully a growing debate & it is of course not at all a new issue.

1/n Let's urgently talk (more) about gender biases and AI! "Give me a photo that shows how "ai meets politics"" gets me the photos below (DALL-E).

What are the theoretical underpinnings of refutational interventions?

Our 🚨new paper🚨 examines:
- prebunking
- debunking
- narrative counters

Part of The Psychology of #Misinfo special issue ed. by @lkfazio.bsky.social & @gordpennycook.bsky.social.

commsky

authors.elsevier.com/a/1iFp3,rU%7...