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Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas

@danrthomas

Research Scientist @Meta, PhD @Columbia, @UWMadison alum

Bay Area Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Science Magazine
Science Magazine@ScienceMagazine·
A new special issue of Science investigates social media’s impact on elections through a pioneering collaboration between independent academics and Meta researchers. Learn more: scim.ag/3vL #SocialMediaAndElections
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Daniel Thomas@danrthomas·
Also see the threads from the lead authors of these studies! twitter.com/andyguess/stat… twitter.com/sgonzalezbailo… twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/s… twitter.com/jenjpan/status…
Jennifer Pan@jenjpan

Today, 2 papers I coauthored w/ @andyguess @namalhotra @p_barbera are out in Science. These papers, about the role of social media in American democracy, are based on pre-registered experiments with consenting participants conducted w/ @Meta #SocialMediaAndElections

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Daniel Thomas@danrthomas·
This collaboration between academic and Meta researchers will hopefully make a large contribution to our understanding of the role of these platforms in the context of the U.S. 2020 election. For more context/results see: twitter.com/p_barbera/stat…
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Daniel Thomas@danrthomas·
Really excited for the first 4 papers from the U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study to come out today in Science and Nature! It has been a thrill to work on this project since I joined Meta a few years ago.
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El País English Edition
El País English Edition@elpaisinenglish·
Removing just 100 accounts produced a noticeable impact, since it denied proponents of hate speech a microphone and ultimately improved the broader social media environment #Echobox=1686105305" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…
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We show 1. disruption works in general  2. It sparks short-term backlash among the subgroup closest to those removed. However, that backlash is short term 3. In medium-term, it makes platform healthier for all subgroups 2/2
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Daniel Thomas@danrthomas·
Excited to share a new paper co-authored with @lwahedi in PNAS! We evaluate the effects of disrupting hate organizations on Facebook on their audience. Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 1/2
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Ricky Clark
Ricky Clark@ProfRickyClark·
Some career news! I'm super excited to announce that I'll be joining the Department of Government at Cornell (@cornellgov) in Fall '22 as an Assistant Professor. I'm also thrilled that this Fall, I'll be heading to Princeton as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Niehaus Center.
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Renard Sexton
Renard Sexton@renardsexton·
Going to link to a few threads I found helpful contextualizing the events in Myanmar/Burma. On my mind especially is the military's track record of using violence during times of upheaval to consolidate economic (in addition to political) position doi.org/10.1017/S00438…
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Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin@MRubin11·
Register and join. I'm looking forward to discussing @danrthomas's work, I've learned a lot from reading the draft. Thanks to @cassyld and @BradSmithUNC for inviting me to participate.
Online Peace Science Colloquium@PSS_OPSC

Join us live this Friday (12/4) at 2PM-3PM CST as @danrthomas presents "The effects of exposure to violence on social network composition and formation: Evidence from IDP camps in Myanmar" in the Online Peace Science Colloquium! Register here: vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Faraz Usmani
Faraz Usmani@FarazUsmani·
Cool use of a *pre-registered* IV design to highlight the positive impacts of grid electrification on household expenditure, time use, and appliance ownership/use in India @danrthomas SP Harish @RyanKennedy7 @jurpelai twitter.com/khoslasaksham/…
Saksham Khosla@khoslasaksham

What are the medium-term effects of rural electrification? Thomas et al's survey of 686 U.P. households finds positive impacts on spending, activities (eg. work, leisure, cook), and appliance ownership and use after 4 years of electricity access. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Dr. Laila Wahedi
Dr. Laila Wahedi@lwahedi·
Experience of violence -> fewer social ties within IDP camps in Myanmar. This matters because informal social networks are critical for recovery. @danrthomas shows analysis from amazingly detailed data collected from field work. #PaCSS2020 #polnet2020
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Dr. Laila Wahedi
Dr. Laila Wahedi@lwahedi·
.@JaredEdgerton describes a vicious cycle where ingroup conformity -> increased social distance between groups. He theorizes this occurs at the international level. Cooperative ties -> ideological clusters -> changes in democracy/autocracy #pacss2020 #polnet2020
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Clément de Chaisemartin
Clément de Chaisemartin@CdeChaisemartin·
Hi #rstats and #EconTwitter, we are looking for someone interested in translating our did_multipleGT #Stata package into #rstats Package is "only" a few hundreds of lines of code so translating cost should not be too high. Anyone interested? Could give rise to R Journal pub
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