Timothy Graham

We Become What We Behold by Nicky Case! a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

How have I only just discovered this game? Spoilers: it does have some graphic content at the end, but it speaks so much to our media system and the attention economy

ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

exactly!

AI-generated Iran war videos surge as creators use new tech to cash in The US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with AI-generated misinformation.

Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation.

tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations Dan!!! Very proud supervisor moment

Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years

Thanks. My point is: focus on the substantive findings of the Nature paper, which is the focus of the article. Whether Moses was racist or not is beyond the point. Infrastructure embeds politics - this we know. If social media is infrastructure, then we ought to understand how it is political.

Thanks Tilman - fair point. But it is contested and not “largely debunked” - I kindly suggest to read beyond the first google result. It’s an illustrative example, at any rate. The Nature paper and my empirical research provide the core evidence. Along with a growing body of research.

Do it! That old traditional roguelike I’ve been working on since before Covid finally has a build almost ready. It’s super CoQ inspired! If you’re interested I’ll send a link - I’ll pop it on itch soon

From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies - Luisa Golland, Oliver Watteler, Jonas Recker, Jan Schwalbach, Libby Bishop, 2026 Archiving data is a crucial practice, as it ensures reproducibility of research and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re...

Really interesting new paper from some of my former @gesis.org colleagues in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
#commsky #computationalsocialscience

🤣 so erudite that I actually replied in a civil, rational, Habermas-idealist, Plato-approved way

Congrats Caroline!

Aaaand here comes the fan mail

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning.

I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix.

theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

tweet by Catherine na Nollag (@cafernblue): "i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said 'people change their minds when you show them facts' and I said 'actually studies show that's not true' and linked TWO sources and he said 'yeah well I still think it works'"

unfortunately evergreen

🚨🚨🚨The Berlin Court of Appeal ruled today that @democracyreporting.bsky.social (DRI) is entitled to publicly available data from X to conduct research on election interference and disinformation on X in connection with the elections in Hungary 🗳️ 🇭🇺

democracy-reporting.org/en/office/EU...

I’m just shocked at how active it is. I hadn’t logged in more than 3 times in the past decade. I go back on and suddenly it’s like there’s a block party 24/7. So many academics are partying hard over there. I had no idea

Can’t stop progress

Tim. No. Just no.

😂 stay pure

I have logged in more times in a week than I have in 11 years

Mugatu meme: LinkedIn So hot right now

Academics in 2026

That’s true. I mean, there probably is, but I want to stay curmudgeonly in my online form approach

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

One does not simply submit an online form without first copying the entire contents to the clipboard

often the best approach - bye bugs

On the Internet no one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture. A new paper by Dominique Carlon and myself

Why was Reddit overrun with accounts named “__-anus—__fungi_”, spamming 🍄 emojis?

And what does this have to tell us about the difference between bots and humans? And whether the distinction even matters?

New paper out today! With @domcarlon.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you Dan!

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

There are several major platforms that in my opinion are unsafe for everyone, not just children. I'm not saying ban all social media. But the "product" is clearly harmful in multiple, complex, and longitudinal ways.