If she has a luxurious faculty lounge, poli sci Twitter is going to melt down
Watching this show with an academic is going to be like watching ER with a doctor - just constant outrage at the inaccuracy.
This was me with the West Wing. Just constant outrage.

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11 May
My "This is fine" dog and brown M&M in the house
The articles I was discussing
-@Max_Fisher NYT - "Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts": The Age of Misinformation nytimes.com/2021/05/07/wor…
-my @PNASNews - Why "Backfire Effects" Do Not Explain the Durability of Political Misperceptions
pnas.org/content/118/15…
Need more coffee. Don't know how @JoeNBC and @morningmika do it.
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27 Apr
This is not an evidence-based statement. Research has repeatedly found that claims of widespread echo chambers are overstated kf-site-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media_elements…. The role of algorithms in promoting exposure to extreme or harmful content is also often overstated adl.org/media/15868/do….
There are many reasons for very serious concern about social media platforms but evidence-free assertions and moral panics about algorithms are not the way forward.
TLDR: Treating algorithms as the cause of and solution to all of life's problems is a bad approach to social media policy.
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1 Apr
The latest syllabus for my @dartmouth course on political misinformation and conspiracy theories: sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/20…

Hard to keep up with this fast-changing field; SO much incredible work coming out that I totally overhaul it every year and can still cover just a fraction.
Also, the latest syllabus for my experiments in politics course where students and I design, conduct, & analyze a study together: sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/20…

We've published four so far:
cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmout…
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Delightful to see more folks teaching classes like this!
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