Working Paper · 2026
Platforms and policymakers keep rewriting the rules for online political advertising, but what regulations do citizens actually want? Using a nationally representative NORC …
JEPS · 2026
Examines what features of online ads lead people to perceive them as political. Through experiments varying source, content, and political orientation, the study maps the factors …
AJPS · 2026
In linguistically diverse democracies, do political parties actually bother to speak minority languages — or do they just stick to the dominant tongue? This paper analyzes Facebook …
Working Paper · 2026
Does populist rhetoric actually win over mass audiences? Analyzing more than 28 million Facebook posts from over 26,000 candidates and 1,600 parties across 90 countries, this paper …
PSRM · 2026
Examines how political polarization and populism shape the emotional responses of citizens to election outcomes. The study finds that while polarization amplifies emotional …
Working Paper · 2026
Demonstrates how multilingual language models enable cross-lingual text analysis without translation. Fine-tuning a multilingual model on just one language matches the performance …
Working Paper · 2026
Using a novel dataset of candidates' Facebook pages across 82 elections in 68 democracies, this paper examines how national, institutional, party, and individual factors shape …
IMC 2026 · 2026
A large-scale longitudinal study issuing 55,393 trending queries to Google over 40 days to measure when AI Overviews activate, how credible their sources are, how faithfully they …
POQ · 2024
Investigates why older Americans disproportionately engage with dubious political news online. The study finds that partisan motivation plays a central role: older partisans are …
JEPS · 2023
Experimentally tests how exposure to unsubstantiated voter fraud claims affects public confidence in elections. The study finds that such claims meaningfully reduce trust in …