A MUST for all Musks: How science can guide effective social media regulation
In October 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, declaring that "the bird is freed" and that freedom of expression would be a priority on his platform. Although little is known about…
Is Twitter data going to disappear? Our research community is bracing for possible consequences
In just over a month after the change in Twitter leadership, there have been significant changes to the social media platform, in its new “Twitter 2.0” version. For researchers who…
Our new book chapter published by Lexington Books
“The Internet and the 2020 Campaign”, edited by Terri L. Towner, Jody C. Baumgartner, opens with our chapter on the role of social media before, during, and in the aftermath…
Dataset release and publication at WebSci 2022
Our paper “The Disinformation Dozen: An Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Disinformation Proliferation on Twitter” has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022. In this paper,…
New project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Our project “CAll for Regulation Support In Social MediA (CARISMA) has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. CARISMA will be a joint effort conducted by researchers from SUPSI, OSoMe , UZH, and ISI-USC.