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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 2d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · 13d

Come hang out with us and talk about data access! #tsrconf

Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 13d

Also at 11:30am PT, @leticiabode.bsky.social cohosts a workshop w/ @naomishiffman.bsky.social, @angieholan.bsky.social & @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social “Let’s Share: A Framework for Researcher Access to Publicly Available Platform Data” to preview our new framework! Be sure to join + say hello #TSRConf

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 13d

Also at 11:30am PT, @leticiabode.bsky.social cohosts a workshop w/ @naomishiffman.bsky.social, @angieholan.bsky.social & @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social “Let’s Share: A Framework for Researcher Access to Publicly Available Platform Data” to preview our new framework! Be sure to join + say hello #TSRConf

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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · Aug 19

From funding gaps to legal threats, the report shows what blocks public interest research - but also affirms our shared belief: that independent technology research is key to a just, transparent, and equitable digital future.

Read and share! (2/2)

independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...

The State of Independent Technology Research 2025

A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it.

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 13

Chapter 8 of our book is all about science communicators, happy to share if you think it would be helpful!

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 13

Totally agree. We have some forthcoming work that looks at bot corrections but it's really just scratching the surface.

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 12

Great question! The answer is no not really. We talk some about LLMs in the conclusion but most of the research predates their proliferation.

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 12

And if Chapter One convinces you, use discount code AUFLY30 for 30% off the paperback here global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 12

Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...

Introduction

Abstract. This chapter introduces the core concept of the book, observed correction, which occurs when direct public corrections of misinformation are witn

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 5

50 free eprints at this link - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQQB5...

How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations

In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed a bill (SB8) prohibiting abortion after six weeks and facilitating lawsuits against providers and aiders of abortions. In order to understand the nature ...

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 5

There's nothing better than seeing a student project all the way through to publication! 🤩

Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations

In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed a bill (SB8) prohibiting abortion after six weeks and facilitating lawsuits against providers and aiders of abortions. In order to understand the nature ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 4

danieldrezner.substack.com/p/writing-th...

Writing Through My Policy Depression

It's been a bad week on top of a bad month on top of a bad year. What to do?

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Aug 4

Feel this in my bones (via @dandrezner.bsky.social ). "it’s been a shitty week on top of a shitty month on top of a shitty year."

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 31

h/t @cmfrumin.bsky.social 's newsletter.

Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 31

Any DC friends thinking about adopting a pet? Fees are waived this Saturday!

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tennis player Emma Raducanu on DC heat: "Different level...I think the humidity here as well, it just makes it feel completely like you have just opened an oven and it just stayed open and your head is in there.”

Yep.

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Leylah Fernandez’s marathon of an upset sends her to the DC Open final

The young Canadian sweated out a rally past Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina to advance in three sets. She’ll face Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in Sunday’s final.

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 28

Anyone have a great system for incorporating more work-related books into your life? (I do fine making time for fiction...)

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 28

I really want to make progress on my towering stacks of books to be read this fall (partly just because at some point they will fall over and crush me and while that would be a totally appropriate way for me to die, I'd still prefer to avoid it).

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 28

Stupid questions for folks in information integrity spaces. Where did the 3 D's concept (downrank, deplatform, demonetize) originate? @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social @bgoldberg.bsky.social @alexleavitt.bsky.social @commscholar.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social @jianingli.bsky.social

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today, August 14, Meta has officially eliminated CrowdTangle, a tool used to parse data in media platforms such as Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.

Read more: shorturl.at/TWhbn

Register for the CrowdTangle Funeral co-hosted by KGI on 9/30: shorturl.at/mQS9G

The Death of CrowdTangle - Knight–Georgetown Institute

Meta is killing a tool you’ve never heard of – why should you care? August 14, 2024By Leticia Bode Today, Meta quietly pulled the plug on CrowdTangle, a tool they had acquired back in 2016. Crowdtangl...

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We at @knightgtown.bsky.social are looking for our first Communications Director! This is an exciting opportunity to define how a growing tech policy hub communicates with the world.

Apply here: kgi.georgetown.edu/announcement...

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · Dec 5

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

@knightgtown.bsky.social and Georgetown’s CCT Program are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! This is an exciting opportunity to lead research to understand how evidence and research is being used in social media and platform litigation. Apply here: bit.ly/4fWh8kY

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · Jan 8

Mark Zuckerberg’s hyperpartisan rant against fact-checking was a craven political move, no part of which should be taken at face value.

My take on yesterday's news:
open.substack.com/pub/fakedup/...

Zuck chucks fact-checkers to cosplay as Elon Musk

🤥 Faked Up #31: Meta terminates fact-checking program, Matryoshka migrates to BlueSky, and Spiegel identifies MrDeepFakes

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · May 16

🚨New exciting job opportunity! Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Fritz Fellowship in Digital Competition Research! This position will work with KGI & @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Apply here today: kgi.georgetown.edu/postdoctoral...

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · Jun 4

Musk's stint in govt is a cautionary tale about assuming expertise in one domain automatically qualifies someone - or yourself - to lead in another.

In my latest, I write about how this collision of different expertise is coming for every industry.

anchorchange.substack.com/p/the-expert...

The Expertise Paradox

What Elon Musk's DOGE experience reveals about the collision between different types of expertise—and why every industry is about to learn the same lesson

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨NEW Report: The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome 🚨

Our report shows a Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible and offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... #USvGoogle

The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome – Knight-Georgetown Institute

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Jul 8

Now published!

@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.

Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

Photo by Andrew Chadwick of Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga's new book Observed Correction, published July 2025 in the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series from OUP USA.

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 9

This book wouldn't exist without Andy's support way back in 2017!

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Jul 8

Now published!

@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.

Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 1

@alissacooper.bsky.social, upon hearing I used to have a pet snake: "Yea, that's on brand." 😆

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Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social · Jul 1

Special issue of Political Communication CFP on "the political communication dynamics at work in democratic decline—and in democratic resilience" - full manuscripts due December 15.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Communicating Democratic Decline & Resilience

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