Michael Cohen

Wow, didn’t realize that. And now they’re closer to making it a reality. Ugh… 😩

When can we escape this hell that we’re in??

This, in combination with the new national security strategy that seems to characterize efforts to counter disinformation and manipulative content coming from Europe as counter to America's national security, has me freaked out that they are on the verge of criminalizing this research broadly...

so now if you worked in content moderation you are visa-blackballed like you'd be if you're friends were all al qaeda

Interestingly, the evidence as to whether misinformation in video form is more impactful (including deepfakes) seems to be less clear than one would expect. (See dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...) But it definitely deserves further study!

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries

The Republican Party is a death cult. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind.

The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Nice piece, and consistent with our findings that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online www.science.org/doi/full/10....

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Trump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism, report says Michael Velchik reportedly praised 'Mein Kampf' after graduating from Harvard, where he also wrote an essay from Hitler's perspective.

When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it.
forward.com/fast-forward...

I've been inspired by the courage shown by @katmabu.bsky.social in protesting ICE. Now the fascist fucks are charging her criminally for protesting. She is the kind of leader we need right now.

I’ll be giving two talks in Chicago this week!
• Wednesday: “The Brain and Misinformation” at Theater Wit
• Thursday: A talk on my book and research at Northwestern University’s Department of Communication Fall Colloquium

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊

Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek,
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April, 2026, University of Cambridge Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. Potential research focus might include (but is not limited to) the effects on global systemic economic, health, environmental, migration, human rights, or human conflict risk from: · Social media message feed algorithms that amplify disinformation or suppress evidence-based narratives, · Search advertising algorithms that incentivize expanded reach of disinformation or suppression of evidence-based narratives, · Artificial intelligence information errors, bias, or corruption, · Crypto and meme asset trading, based on disinformation or to facilitate laundering, or · Psychological addiction or radicalization inspired by artificially created or algorithmically amplified disinformation.

Call for Papers:

2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 Apr 2026

University of Cambridge

For more information, see the Summit website, the Summit's LinkedIn feed, or email CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Secession?

Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social:

"It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us."

www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being.

officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

bit.ly/3HkcyBf

Yep. I feel exactly the same way... I wish there were more that we all could do to save American academia from this...😠. But instead, I'm hoping to leave the United States.

Glad to finally get this in the wild, as data was collected back in 2021. This project was inspired by a Zoom discussion organized by Beatrice Kuhlmann and Nancy Dennis in January 2021. Also may be of interest to @srndna.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social among others...

Finally, there is evidence against basic MTurk, including an atypical age effect on sustained attention in the MTurk sample, with older adults doing better (rather than no age effect). Overall, cognitive performance was lower than CR or Prolific, with no better representativeness on personality. 4/

Effects of age on cognition did not differ much by platform type. But effects of age on personality measures did -- effects of age on personality were more comparable to traditional samples in panel samples than in crowdsourced samples, particularly for Extraversion and Openness. 3/

More specifically, we tested people on vocabulary, digit symbol coding, paired associate memory, and sustained attention (via @testmybrain.bsky.social). Generally, cognitive performance was better across age groups for participants from @cloudresearch.bsky.social and @joinprolific.bsky.social . 2/