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In a workshop titled "Content Moderation and Free Speech on Social Media," held on the 18th and 19th of October, participants delved into the cutting-edge developments in political science and communication research surrounding online incivility and content moderation. [read more]

Yannis Theocharis presents on Harmful Speech and Content Moderation Preferences on Social Media at the Alan Turing Institute in London. [read more]

The interviewer Christoph Drösser asks about a study regarding the Russian influence on the US presidential election 2016 via Twitter. [read more]

Uncover the findings of the latest scientific article: "Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior" (Eady et al. 2023) [read more]

On December 2nd, the article "Do Twitter users want Musk to censure or ban offensive or threatening posts? - That depends on which group the tweets are attacking, our research suggests" was published in the Monkey Cage section of The Washington Post. The article discusses the research conducted by… [read more]

Soyeon Jin and Yannis Theocharis are co-authors of the article titled 'Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation' (Matthes et al. 2022), published on November 29 in the journal 'Information, Communication & Society.' [read more]