🎉 We're really excited to be collaborating with our excellent partners on this, as part of WP3 of the What-If Horizon project, hosted at the Observatory.

🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy in the area!

More insights 🔜

🔬📚 Come do your PhD with us at the Observatory!

🔗 For more details, see the quoted thread!

This report, which was recently cited by @ofcom.bsky.social, and our other commentary on platform data sharing, is central to our mission that platform data should be accessible for independent academics.

Read the Ofcom report here:

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

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@georgidag.bsky.social

⚠️ For us, accessing platform data is central in enhancing online political safety research, particularly its credibility, validity and ethical standards!

📑 In fact, we have already produced a report on this topic!

➡️ osf.io/preprints/so...

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🇩🇪 Hello from Berlin!

📍This week, LSMO is at the #DSA40 Workshop, thanks @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social for the invitation!

🤝 We’re here to connect with other academics to learn more about how to access platform data for research via DSA & to advocate for better data access more generally

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🟠 We chose orange to honour our present and future at the university

🟢 We chose green from the suffragette flag to symbolise hope, that our research will deliver good things!

🔵 Finally, we chose blue to signify possibility and inspiration, for all the new projects we have to come!

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💪 Did you know about @royalholloway.bsky.social's history of supporting social justice, especially women's suffrage? We did!

🖌️ When it came to designing our logo, we chose colours that honoured these alumnae, while also maintaining a close connection to the current identity of the college

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While we’re on the subject of press releases, here is the official announcement from @ukri.org 🎉

Congratulations to all the new fellows! 👏

👋 Hello again!

🗞️ We are happy to share an official press release announcing our launch on the @royalholloway.bsky.social website!

➡️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...

📩 If you have any questions or are interested in collaborating, send us a message!

🔭 We’re excited to get started soon! ☺️

🤝 Beyond our commitment to rigorous academic research, by working closely with stakeholders, this project seeks to inform evidence-based policymaking in the area.

➡️ Follow us today for updates, research highlights and more!

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Our key research questions include:

🔹 Do platforms moderate and curate political content?
🔹 How, and how often?
🔹 Under what conditions?
🔹 To what extent, if at all, do these platform actions shape people’s political attitudes and behaviours?

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📱 Social media platforms shape how political speech is moderated and curated, but there’s still so much we don’t fully understand

🔬 Our research will examine the role of private companies in framing political debates and amplifying or downplaying particular voices online

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📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉

➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship

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