Maximilian Gerrath

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks for the interview, @andrewmisra.bsky.social! It was nice meeting you and the team. Bluesky's growth is impressive, though MAUs are still far behind X. It'll be interesting to see how the switching behavior of advertisers and major content creators decides which will be the dominant platform.

As thousands desert Twitter, is this the end for Elon Musk’s X? It was once the world's online marketplace of ideas. But ever since the billionaire tycoon Elon Musk bought up Twitter and renamed it X - dissatisfied users have fled the site - especially after the U...

Thanks for the nice feedback about our Bluesky report tonight. 🦋

The full piece, featuring @metromayorsteve.bsky.social & @drmaximilian.bsky.social, is below.

Will be fascinating to see what the year ahead holds for this site and others…

www.channel4.com/news/as-thou...

Thanks to @channel4news.bsky.social for having me on the show :)

I've created a Starter Pack for academics in Behavioral Marketing.

Feel free to nominate anyone whom I might have missed.

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Back on Bluesky for testing purposes. Mostly active on LinkedIn.

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