

Yunkang Yang, PhD
611 posts

@yangyunkang
Prof. at Texas A&M | Weapons of Mass Deception (https://t.co/c497L9r4aq) | Political Communication | Digital Media | Computational Social Science








Dan Bongino is stepping down as the F.B.I.’s deputy director. Revisit Evan Osnos’s Profile of the Secret Service agent turned talk-radio host turned Trump Administration official. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/H2BQss

For Fox News-watchers, this means the network is very unlikely to change ideologically, as Lachlan Murdoch has intended to keep things as they are. At least until 2050.

How do congressional candidates tailor messages across platforms? Research by ERC affiliate @Ross_Dahlke and coauthors finds mobilization strategies vary by platform, not just party, but that only Republicans used alt-tech like Truth Social. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/205630…


How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @AJPS_Editor paper with @YingdanL_kk, @jenjpan & @xuyiqing, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1… 🧵


"[D]elivers new and significant insights into how conservative leaders employed the 'liberal media' claim to build a movement that came to dominate US politics and policy formation." Coming this Fall! MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer. bit.ly/4iQN62F @columbiaup




Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are launching a campaign asking Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin. Elon Musk tweeted that it's "something to think about."