Invisible Rulers is ab how influencers, algorithms, & crowds shape public opinion. The Twitter Files was profoundly impactful BS. Media never reckoned with what it really was: a very effective propaganda campaign led by election deniers to dismantle state capacity. Read more: invisiblerulers.com

The paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today! To celebrate I dropped audio of the Twitter Space where Mike Benz first groomed Matt Taibbi into believing there'd been "mass censorship" of "hundreds of millions of tweets"—something he'd then testify before Congress. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz

How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.

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⚖️ A federal court has blocked a Trump administration policy that tried to use immigration law to punish tech researchers and advocates for their work on misinformation, content moderation, and online safety. via @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-cannot...

Trump Cannot Use Immigration Law to Silence Technology Researchers

Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder detail an initial court victory for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research in CITR v. Rubio.

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Do you research misinformation? @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.uk, Matthew Hornsey and I have a new piece out in NHB on lessons learned from climate psychology that can catalyze misinformation research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research

Nature Human Behaviour - Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we...

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿? We take a first step toward grappling with this question, focusing on climate change 🌏 🌡️ and misinformation 📰❌. We reflect on what #psychology has learned from studying the #climate crisis — and how six insights transfer to #misinformation research.

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Do you research misinformation? @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.uk, Matthew Hornsey and I have a new piece out in NHB on lessons learned from climate psychology that can catalyze misinformation research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you research misinformation? @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.uk, Matthew Hornsey and I have a new piece out in NHB on lessons learned from climate psychology that can catalyze misinformation research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research

Nature Human Behaviour - Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we...

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We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.

This was bad enough, but he is now misleading people about it. For instance, yesterday he posted on LinkedIn that she was lying about the ruling. So I am writing to fact check the misinformation he spread and share the email with the official ruling from the NYU Office of Equal Opportunity:

Those allegations did tremendous damage — to our reputations, to grant funding for work in our field, to the broader discourse about what "free speech" means and whose speech is protected. The team who did this work at Stanford was dissolved. Our funding took a big hit. But our work at UW continues.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

🚨 NEWS: The European Commission finds addictive design of Instagram & Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.

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Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

New preprint led by @lucasmolleman.bsky.social investigates social information use across the human lifespan. Testing >40,000 participants aged 6-80 in museums in Berlin and Japan. psyarxiv.com/hec96

Big Plastic is running the same playbook as Big Oil: deny, distract, delay. @ciel.org's new report “The Plastics Plot” shows how industry disinformation reframes plastic pollution as a waste problem, oversells recycling and stalls rules on cutting production. www.ciel.org/reports/plas...

The Plastics Plot: The Corporate Disinformation Tactics Behind Plastics Pollution - Center for International Environmental Law

Plastics industry disinformation delays plastic pollution regulation. The brief describes the playbook and its implications for the Global Plastics Treaty.

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📣 New article out in @pnasnexus.org with Sascha Riaz and @heikekluever.bsky.social: “Temperature and aggression revisited: Evidence from 1 million amateur football matches” 🔍 Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Do you think negative emotions about climate change hamper climate-friendly beliefs and behaviors? 🚨 Our newly published paper might be for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

If you're a European, Canadian, or Australian policymaker looking to make the case for #digitalsovereignty, the United States has just made it for you. The time for debate is over; cloud and AI sovereignty are essential if future generations are to avoid digital colonialism.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2mo ago

"The Trump administration is banning foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic’s most powerful artificial-intelligence tools, prompting the company to shut off access to everyone to comply with the new rule." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Do you think negative emotions about climate change hamper climate-friendly beliefs and behaviors? 🚨 Our newly published paper might be for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

🔹Renée DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) — Invisible Rulers, Visible Costs: Propaganda, AI, and the Fight for a Shared Reality The information environment is engineered, not neutral. Renée examines how algorithms and AI reshaped persuasion and the cost of defending research under attack.

🌞 The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality @mpib-berlin.bsky.social returns next week. At its core, we ask: how do minds make good decisions under genuine uncertainty by drawing on an adaptive toolbox of simple heuristics tuned to their environment? www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

Psychology researchers: Got questions about what kinds of submissions we’re looking for at Psych Science (the journal)? (Short answer: empirical research in any area of psychology!) If you’re at #APS26BCN, stop by the APS booth in the exhibit hall between 4-5pm today to chat with me!

Hey peeps going to APS in Barcelona! If you worry about misinformation, swing by my poster on Friday to hear what Laura Globig @steverathje.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and I have been up to in the past 2 years :) Bonus point: I have loads of recs for BCN food and sightseeing ;)

Hey peeps going to APS in Barcelona! If you worry about misinformation, swing by my poster on Friday to hear what Laura Globig @steverathje.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and I have been up to in the past 2 years :) Bonus point: I have loads of recs for BCN food and sightseeing ;)

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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Our wonderteam @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social & Matthew Hornsey have a new preprint out for misinformation researchers out there: Six insights from climate psychology for the study of misinformation osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

Our wonderteam @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social & Matthew Hornsey have a new preprint out for misinformation researchers out there: Six insights from climate psychology for the study of misinformation osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

Laura Globig, @steverathje.bsky.social, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social , @hallgeirsjastad.bsky.social and I surveyed 47000+ people across countries to measure people's preferences. We found that people are split between protecting freeexpression (51%) and preventing misinformation from spreading (49%) 2/

However, we find that this preference is politically polarized: in 32 out of 40 countries, right-leaningparticipants prioritize protecting free expression more than left-leaning participants(55% vs. 48%).

The dilemma of balancing freedom of expression against limiting the spread of misinformation defines speech governance in today's information ecosystems. In our new preprint, we argue that speech governance may be a new cleavage of ideological polarization osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/