Our recent APSR paper summarized:

Most people wish we had free speech online. But we also know that bad actors sometimes cross a line.

Now, where is that line? Would people ever support removing toxic posts?

We experimentally assigned exposure to different posts to find out:

When does toxic speech cross the line? A new American Political Science Review article by Franziska Pradel, Jan Zilinsky, Spyros Kosmidis, and @yannis_theo shows that Americans show little support for content moderation of uncivil and intolerant content. ow.ly/byLG50R00rQ

New publication w Shruti Shukla & Rucha Vasumati Satish - HfPMuenchen TU München
How can violence-focused data collection be safe & ethical? Our paper analyses correlates of distress among teenage girls participating in a violence survey in India
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sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

(10/10)
'From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy' by Joshua Tucker Yannis Theocharis Molly Roberts and Pablo Barberá
📝Social media appear to have problematic consequences in both authoritarian and democratic regimes.
muse.jhu.edu/article/671987

1 week left to apply!

📢 I am very excited that our paper “Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Online News Consumption during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic” is now published! 🎉👍 Yannis Theocharis Jan Zilinsky Franziska Pradel (see thread 🧵⬇️)

When is speech on social media toxic enough to warrant content moderation? Franziska Pradel, Jan Zilinsky, Spyros Kosmidis, Yannis Theocharis find both the severity of toxicity & the target matter, but demands for content moderation are limited.
#APSRFirstView
ow.ly/uzpr50QP8os

♀️To celebrate today's #InternationalWomensDay , I would like to highlight some of my team's research focused on #gender and #women TU München HfPMuenchen
👇Topics include: teenage pregnacy, spousal trust, online misogyny against female politicians, and gender-based violence

Check out our new comparative study on the Internet topology in democracies and autocracies, led by Eda Keremoğlu! Final version of the article is now available at doi.org/10.1093/pnasne….

1/n As we are preparing for #InternationalWomensDay2024 this week, it's perfect time to share results from our recently completed #MetaAnalysis with Amber Peterman Jingying Wang kevin K. Sonke: Do social safety net interventions economically & socially empower women? cgdev.org/blog/do-social…

Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and Yannis Theocharis. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/149….

Job Alert!🎓2 PhD positions in my research group 'Media Coverage of Majority & Minority Groups' TU München with focus on automated text analysis/computational social science & qualitative content analysis. Apply by March 25th! ⬇️ portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissensch… portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissensch…

Can’t believe that the NYT actually wrote about this (being among those devastated back then)!But even if they (Square) decide to do it again,it is hard to believe it will have the same impact as it had in the 1997 version. What a masterpiece FFVII was.

nytimes.com/2024/02/20/art…

New book Alert: Guardrails. With Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. How does society shape individual actions in times of uncertainty? What are principles for good decision governance? Lern more:  guardrails.design

I'm hiring a postdoc!

> Aug 2024 - July 2027
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Interest in digital technology & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> Salary: CHF 81,400/yr

Pls help me spread the word!

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

Congratulations on this important paper!! 🎉 Happy to see what comes out of our #RebootSocialMediaLab - we’re excited for what’s next!! 🤓 Yannis Theocharis Jan Zilinsky Franziska Pradel Spyros Kosmidis

New paper J of Peace Research with Tabea Palmtag (@IPZ_ch) and Tobias Rommel (@HfPMuenchen/ TU München)!🥳

bit.ly/47V7zhl

Hiring alert ‼️ 3 professorships in Politics & Technology.

We continue to build our faculty at HfPMuenchen and TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology TU München

Please consider joining us.

portal.mytum.de/jobs/professur…

📢 Exciting news! Our new paper, with Jan Zilinsky Spyros Kosmidis Yannis Theocharis, on 'Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media' has been published in the APSR! Here's a thread on our research and main findings. 🧵👇American Political Science Review