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The social media discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant.

Prevailing theories of partisan incivility on social media suggest that it derives from disagreement about political issues or from status competition between groups. This study-which analyzes the com…

Mamakos, M., & Finkel, E. J. (2023). The social media discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant.. PNAS Nexus, 2(10), pgad325. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad325

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Politics Over Public Health: Analysis of Twitter and Reddit Posts Concerning the Role of Politics in the Public Health Response to COVID-19.

The purpose of this study is to foster an understanding of the safety, science, and political polarization issues public health officials (PHOs) must navigate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thi…

Valiavska, A., & Smith-Frigerio, S. (2023). Politics Over Public Health: Analysis of Twitter and Reddit Posts Concerning the Role of Politics in the Public Health Response to COVID-19.. Health Commun, 38(11), 2271-2280. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2063497

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Discovery and characterisation of socially polarised communities on social media.

Social polarisation processes have become a central phenomenon for the explanation of population behavioural dynamics in today's societies. Although recent works offer solutions for the detection of p…

Alvarez-Galvez, J., Cruz, F. L., & Troyano, J. A. (2023). Discovery and characterisation of socially polarised communities on social media.. Sci Rep, 13(1), 15439. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42592-2

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Combating Scientific Disinformation on Gender-Affirming Care.

Scientific disinformation is false and misleading information that is used intentionally by legal and political actors to sway public opinion and oppose facts. In recent years, disinformation has beco…

McNamara, M., Abdul-Latif, H., Boulware, S. D., Kamody, R., Kuper, L. E., Olezeski, C. L., Szilagyi, N., & Alstott, A. (2023). Combating Scientific Disinformation on Gender-Affirming Care.. Pediatrics, 152(3). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060943

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Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform.

Do anonymous online conversations between people with different political views exacerbate or mitigate partisan polarization? We created a mobile chat platform to study the impact of such discussions.…

Combs, A., Tierney, G., Guay, B., Merhout, F., Bail, C. A., Hillygus, D. S., & Volfovsky, A. (2023). Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform.. Nat Hum Behav, 7(9), 1454-1461. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

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People's perceptions on COVID-19 vaccination: an analysis of twitter discourse from four countries.

More than six and half million people have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic till Dec 2022. Vaccination is the most effective means to prevent mortality and infection attributed to COVID-19. I…

Verma, M., Moudgil, N., Goel, G., Pardeshi, P., Joseph, J., Kumar, N., Singh, K., Singh, H., & Kodali, P. B. (2023). People's perceptions on COVID-19 vaccination: an analysis of twitter discourse from four countries.. Sci Rep, 13(1), 14281. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41478-7

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Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing.

Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of 'echo chambers' on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the challenge…

Nyhan, B., Settle, J., Thorson, E., Wojcieszak, M., Barberá, P., Chen, A. Y., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Guess, A. M., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Malhotra, N., Moehler, D., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing.. Nature, 620(7972), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06297-w

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Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions.

We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any reshares over a…

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Moehler, D., Nyhan, B., Rivera, C. V., Settle, J., Thomas, D. R., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions.. Science, 381(6656), 404-408. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add8424

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How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

We investigated the effects of Facebook's and Instagram's feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered feeds instead of the …

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Moehler, D., Nyhan, B., Rivera, C. V., Settle, J., Thomas, D. R., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?. Science, 381(6656), 398-404. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp9364

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Facebook 'echo chamber' has little impact on polarized views, according to study.

Petrić, H. o. w. e. . N. (2023). Facebook 'echo chamber' has little impact on polarized views, according to study.. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02425-8

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Counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues: Moving the needle on vaccines in a polarized United States.

This paper reports results from a large-scale randomized controlled trial assessing whether counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues can induce people to get COVID-19 vaccines. The study used…

Larsen, B. J., Ryan, T. J., Greene, S., Hetherington, M. J., Maxwell, R., & Tadelis, S. (2023). Counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues: Moving the needle on vaccines in a polarized United States.. Sci Adv, 9(29), eadg9434. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg9434

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Placing "trust" in science: The urban-rural divide and Americans' feelings of warmth toward scientists.

Long-standing discussions of the so-called urban-rural divide in the United States have uncovered meaningful differences between urbanites and rural residents, but much of this work has focused on pol…

Krause, N. M. (2023). Placing "trust" in science: The urban-rural divide and Americans' feelings of warmth toward scientists.. Public Underst Sci, 32(5), 596-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221147232

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