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Excited about our new publication "Systematic review: YouTube recommendations and problematic content" alongside @STWorg in @PolicyR 🥳 Check it out: 10.14763/2022.1.1652 | Well does the recommender system facilitate pathways to problematic content?Potentially, Yes. Thread 📝

As I said last year, this is one of the most impressive studies I've ever seen in political psychology If you have to read on study on the topic, read this one: x.com/jayvanbavel/st…

Logical Fallacies False Equivalence: Compares unrelated legal cases, not the same issue. Emotional Appeal: Uses language to provoke outrage. Hasty Generalization: Broad claim based on two cases. Tu Quoque: Criticizes inconsistency without details. Strawman: Missing key context.

I’m convinced no one got Oasis tickets. The idea that they are getting back together is a collective societal delusion. It never happened.

My thoughts on the recent Islamophobic riots.

If Chimaev beats Whittaker, he will have beaten Burns, Holland, Usman, and Whittaker in 14 fights. That would be an incredible accomplishment!

If you'd like to read more about this topic you can find our research here: doi.org/10.1186/s41235… Authors: @STWorg and myself

Our research demonstrates that inoculation can effectively confer resistance against both Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants exposed to inoculation interventions showed significantly less agreement with harmful content and were less likely to share it.

The consequences of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation and what we can do about it. A thread 🧵

Was feeling a bit chaotic today so I listened to a few Christmas songs.

Researchers please help! I'm looking for papers on whether inoculation can inadvertently decrease the sharing of accurate information. Please point me in the right direction!