Timothy Graham
@timothyjgraham.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Every few weeks I think about this and remember how amazing the internet was in the 1990s, and all we have lost in the era of commodified social media Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds (published one year ago) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
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Absolutely chuffed that my PhD thesis Envisaging simulation and its limits: Large Language Models From Architecture, to Interface, to Ideology has passed examination with no revisions and was nominated by both examiners to receive an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award :D
Very interesting new social media data collection tool. Top of the reading list 👀 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01460
Reports suggest US agencies are using over-classification to hide embarrassing information which violates US law restricting classification to national security requirements. steadystate1.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter to Current Federal National Security Employees Regarding Classification
The Steady State
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Latest research from our "Dark Political Communication" ARC Discovery Project. Large-scale data analysis showing how markets respond to Donald Trump's posts BEFORE he posts them. Kindly republished via QUT Media @qutdmrc.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth... #politics #trump #finance
For a while now, Stephen Harrington, Ella Chorazy and I have been looking at how financial markets respond to Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social. This research is part of our ARC Discovery Proje...
For a while now, Stephen Harrington, Ella Chorazy and I have been looking at how financial markets respond to Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social. This research is part of our ARC Discovery Project o...
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This is Andriy, he was only 15, a 9th-grade student. Yesterday, a Russian missile strike Pryluky killed him🕯💔 Witnesses say he was simply walking down the street when a missile fragment pierced his chest and abdomen. He later passed away in the hospital from his injuries.
This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is making a massive fantasy proc-gen world to explore, with puzzles, secrets, and lost artifacts to discover. What special things will players find in your turn-based game? Follow @Byte-Arcane.itch.io and show us in tomorrow's thread!
A truly fascinating visualization (which we only can dream of for our reports) Also an impressive hypothesis —which will hopefully survive peer review.
Timothy Graham@timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 3mo agoSomething strange is happening in the markets just before President Trump posts on Truth Social. Our latest article (with @phzerosounds.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy) tells a visual story via a large-scale empirical analysis. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...
Something strange is happening in the markets just before President Trump posts on Truth Social. Our latest article (with @phzerosounds.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy) tells a visual story via a large-scale empirical analysis. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...
The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
stories.theconversation.com
Very happy to have this piece out in @aunz.theconversation.com today, alongside my good colleagues @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy, looking at weird stuff happening in the oil markets before Trump posts to Truth Social. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...
The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
stories.theconversation.com
Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
2026: every world event is now also a conspiracy theory about Polymarket insider trading Time to update all social theory for the new ontological a priori: gambling
Latest thought from me regarding how platforms - in this case Twitter/X - shape the operation of truth in the 21st century. Drawing especially on the work of @jaysonharsin.bsky.social and @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social in this article. journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
Truth Markets and the Consensus Trap | M/C Journal
Epistemic Infrastructure At 13:07 on 23 April 2013, the Associated Press (AP) tweeted: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is Injured”. Within seconds, automated trading sy...
journal.media-culture.org.au
Axel Bruns@snurb.info · 3mo ago🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
Truly an honour to contribute to this special issue alongside this all-star lineup of scholars. RIP Twitter 🪦 and thank you @snurb.info and @hermida.bsky.social for bringing this special issue together 🙏
Axel Bruns@snurb.info · 3mo ago🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
So happy to have my first journal article published today! I argue that LLMs animate a paradox in which similarity only emerges through difference. I show how this paradox is operationalised by LLMs as they generate a natural language response (1/2) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We've built a searchable & visual database of every X's Community Notes ever proposed. 2 million & counting. The dashboard displays both visible notes (those shown publicly on X) & not-yet-visible notes (proposed notes that have not yet met the visibility thresholds). notetracker.socialmedialab.ca
Daily reminder: do not give Tucker Carlson any attention. He is a grifter and a sophist, and he is part of the reason we are here right now facing domestic threats to global peace and wellbeing.
FIFA World Peace Prize material right here. This is a sickening sentence for anyone to utter - let alone the sitting US President.
Latest commentary from me on war propaganda and media manipulation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Israel posts fake photo of journalist it killed in strike
The IDF has admitted the image of a killed journalist in military uniform it posted on its official X account was faked.
abc.net.au
Latest commentary from me and @snurb.info in this excellent investigative piece by Michael Workman and the ABC NEWS Verify team Generative AI and its intersection with engagement-driven social media logics continues to be a thorn in the side of democracy... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.
abc.net.au
How have I only just discovered this game? Spoilers: it does have some graphic content at the end, but it speaks so much to our media system and the attention economy ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
We Become What We Behold by Nicky Case!
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
ncase.itch.io
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation. tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread. www.bbc.com/news/article...
AI-generated Iran war videos surge as creators use new tech to cash in
The US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with AI-generated misinformation.
bbc.com
Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years
Really interesting new paper from some of my former @gesis.org colleagues in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies" doi.org/10.1177/2053... #commsky #computationalsocialscience
From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies - Luisa Golland, Oliver Watteler, Jonas Recker, Jan Schwalbach, Libby Bishop, 2026
Archiving data is a crucial practice, as it ensures reproducibility of research and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re...
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Aaaand here comes the fan mail
Timothy Graham@timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6mo agoLatest article from me in The Conversation this morning. I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
