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Ben Lyons

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Associate prof at University of Utah Dept of Comm. Associate ed @misinforeview.bsky.social

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Jul 8

Updated "Exposure to low-credibility online health content...", now w YouTube data: Older adults consume less YT, but a higher proportion is low-cred. Dubious political news ex is linked w low-cred health ex.. suggests shared consumption profile spans topics + platforms
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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 1d

The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 10h

our new Element on social corrections is now published and currently open access

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15h

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

This Cambridge Element by F. Stöckel, S. Stöckli, B.A. Lyons, H. Kroker & @jasonreifler.bsky.social is free to read for 2 weeks.

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#cambridgeelements #politics #Polisky

Cover titled "The Power of the Crowd" by Sabrina Stöckli, Benjamin A. Lyons, and Hannah Krekler, published by Cambridge Elements in Political Science. The cover features a vibrant, multicolored geometric background.

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 13h

The Simulacra (PK Dick, 1964)

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13h

OPINION | Maybe Americans would finally vote for a female president if she were girl-next-door cute-but, you know, not an actual human woman, writes @michaelianblack.bsky.social.

My Fellow Americans, It’s Time to Elect an AI President

Why stop with casting an ‘AI actor’ in movies when we could take future tech all the way to the White House?

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 6d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · Nov 22

In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below).

Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Non-linear relationship between affective polarization and support for 4 antidemocratic norms

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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · 16d

Now live: “Do language models favor their home countries? Asymmetric propagation of positive misinformation and foreign interference audits” by Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Tracy Weener, Yung-Chun Chen, Sean Noh, Mingyue Zha, Hsuan Lo misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/do-l...

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 19d

lol thanks for the tag

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 21d

super cool work.

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 21d

A new preprint, lead by lab undergrad Aymin Triki, with machine learning support from @abbycassario.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Sep 2

great title link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Tutorial for Deception Detection Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Aggregating Veracity Judgments and Embraced Signal Detection Theory Mixed Models - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Historically, deception detection research has relied on factorial analyses of response accuracy to make inferences. However, this practice overlooks important sources of variability resulting in pote...

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Sep 2

seems like a nice extension of Ladd

Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Aug 28

link broken?

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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · Aug 27

Now live: “New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations” Anqi Shao misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/new-...

Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Aug 19

hey I wrote a book... coming to you at some point in the future ‪from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Jun 19

✨The Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award

🏅 Awardee: Nicolai Berk (U Zurich)

📄 The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments

To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Jun 19

✨The Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award

Runner-up article: Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

By Jan G. Voelkel et al.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and p...

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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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Matt Williams @matthewmatix.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is a nice write-up of our recent paper by PsyPost, with clear info about limitations and small effect sizes.

I would like to clarify that I am not in fact the person in the photo, though

doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 6

Normalizing lies...👇

Repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news www.nature.com/articles/s41... @dgrand.bsky.social

"...frequently seen headlines receive lower moral condemnation"

"Without this condemnation, the publication & spreading of online misinformation may be more common."

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Jenny Allen @jennyallen.bsky.social · Aug 6

New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social

It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model

Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings

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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Jul 25

Love that thing where you use Google Scholar too much so get locked out because it thinks you're sending automated queries.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jul 23

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness?

In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · Jul 24

Now live: “The small effects of short user corrections on misinformation in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom” by Sacha Altay, Simge Andı, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and Richard Fletcher misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-...

Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · Jul 23

this is a truly hot take. I did not know anyone felt this way.

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Briony Swire-Thompson @brionyswire.bsky.social · Jul 21

The truth sandwich is baloney! New paper out. We show that the “truth sandwich” correction format (in which false information is bookended by factual information) does not enhance corrections. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details!

Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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