Media, Tech & Society PhD Candidate @NorthwesternU / politics, platforms & influencers / Prev @sydney_uni @updiliman @fatimagaw.bsky.soc
Evanston, IL
Joined May 2009
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Fresh off New Media & Society! First publication in 2025 on "covert political campaigning" focused on investigating influencers across 4 social media platforms during elections using field and computational methods + economic modeling ✨doi.org/10.1177/146144482413… With my co-authors—
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Postdoc Opportunity at @NorthwesternU @NU_SoC @BuffettInst! Our Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group is seeking a postdoc starting Summer 2026. If you are working on LLMs and computational social science, this may be for you. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉[email protected]
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Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues.
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more
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In case you missed the preprint, my latest with @amnadler has been published in the current issue of Journalism Studies!
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In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze, President Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris announced today.
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New @IJoC_USC piece out on Influence Operations in the PH as brokerage in the context of democratic backsliding with @summeragonos, Kris & Gerard! 🌟ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
This is an update to the pioneering work of @jonathan_c_ong & @jacecabanes on disinfo ops six years ago 🫡
The research in this article is part of a larger study of Influence Ops in Southeast Asia and its relationship with the nature of elite competitions in these countries.
Indonesia work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Thailand work: tandfonline.com/.../10.../13…
@benbunquin @lanuzer @samuelcabbuag @smallofasia @alhabbyy, supported by @Internews Philippines and our research assistants👏
I want to escape US election news on social media but I can’t filter it out. I want to play Wordle but I won’t because I won’t cross the digital picket line of NYT’s Tech Guild. Omg where do I go now 😭😭😭
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New publication alert! 🚨
Scientific retractions are increasingly being spun into conspiracies about science on social media. Agnes Horvat and I document this worrying trend in the context of COVID-19.
Read it open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
#Retractions #SciComm #COVID19
About to sleep but made the mistake of checking my email and read a manuscript reject email 💀
PS The comments are helpful so I'm not mad but I'm upset like a normal human being
PSS This was the same paper that got top reviews at a conference so I'm also a little confused
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The ABC debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, are doing a professional job at trying to fact-check, briefly, some of the more outrageous claims. A lesson for other journalists.
First time to attend #AEJMC24! ✨ find me if you’re here too 🔎
I’m presenting on Saturday 6:30pm during the @AEJMC_CTM Top paper session 🙌🏻
Full & fun four days of @SICSS_Chicago Summer School! Missing the last day but cheering on Group 6 @LikunCao @bkhoshim & David Gamba 🙌🏻
Thank you to @binglu_wang, Ji Hae Choi & @YingdanL_kk for being fantastic organizers 🏆
