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A MUST for all Musks: How science can guide effective social media regulation
In October 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, declaring that "the bird is freed" and that freedom of expression would be a priority on his platform. Although little is known about Musk's understanding of free speech, many feared that his policies would lead to a neglect in the moderation of harmful...
OSoMe researchers develop new dashboard to track midterm election information across social media
Misleading claims about elections create serious challenges for election officials, social media companies, journalists, and voters. The Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) at Indiana University has launched a new dashboard focused on the 2022 US midterm elections. The US Midterm Elections 2022...
Postdoc position 2023
The Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position. The anticipated start date is January 1, 2023. The position is initially for 12 months and can be renewed for up to 24 additional months, depending on performance and funds a...
New social media tools help public assess viral posts, check for bots
Today we launched three new or revamped research tools to give journalists, other researchers and the public a broad view of what's happening on social media. The tools help overcome some of the biggest challenges of interpreting information flow online, which is often difficult to understand beca...
Postdoc position 2022
The Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2022. The position is initially for 12 months and can be renewed for up to 24 additional months, depending on performance and funds av...
Observatory on Social Media Announces 2022 Knight Fellows
Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media, funded in part with a $3 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has named two new Knight Fellows for 2022. Bao Tran Truong and Jimmy Ochieng will help advance the Observatory’s mission to understand the role of media and t...
Open Developer Positions
The Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) is building a new tech team! We are hiring three positions: a database manager, a web developer (full stack), and a systems engineer. This team will be based at the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI), and will work on...
We are moving and hiring!
We have two big announcements! First, OSoMe (along with IUNI and CNetS) is moving to the new Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence. Second, we have a new tenure-track assistant professor position in Artificial Intelligence and Network Science. We welcome any candidates who study AI, complex...
Black and Thriving Project
2023 UPDATE: This project has been completed and archived. This is a new project which aims to foster a social-contagion intervention that puts the power of choice on voluntary African American participants to share reliable information about COVID-19 vaccines. Our focus on this demographic group...
Probing political bias on Twitter with drifter bots
Our latest paper "Neutral bots probe political bias on social media" by Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang & Fil Menczer just came out in Nature Communications. We find strong evidence of political bias on Twitter, but not as many think: (1) it is conservative rather than liberal bi...
