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Brendan Nyhan

  • Political Scientist and Media Critic, Freelance
Hanover
As seen in: CNN, Folha de S.Paulo, Medium, MSN, The New York Times, Color Research & Application, HuffPost, MSN South Africa, Nature, Post Outlook and
@Dartmouth political scientist & @BrightLineWatch co-director. Before: @upshotNYT; @UMich; @CJR; Spinsanity bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social)

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By Brendan Nyhan
| bsky.app
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post Brendan Nyhan brendannyhan.bsky.social did:plc:clxs5bimkdx2zvxzrbs6v3pw Critically important @ryanenos.bsky.social - I share his fear that any setback for Trump will lead to triumphalism about how American democracy was never threatened in the first place https://ryandenos.substack.com/p/for-posterity-and-for-the-moment.
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Easy to Produce, Hard to Persuade: The Asymmetric Effects of AI on the Online Information Ecosystem

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By Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan
| apsanet.org
Abstract The hype around large language models and other forms of AI has led to widespread concern about their effects on information exposure and persuasion, but these fears are likely to outstrip reality. AI is more likely to reinforce existing patterns of exposure and behavior than it is to transform how people understand and relate to the political world.
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How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections

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By Ruth E. Appel, young kim, Jennifer Pan, Yiqing Xu, Ben Nimmo, Daniel Thomas, Hunt Allcott, Pablo Barberá, Taylor Kate Brown, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Matthew Gentzkow, Sandra González-Bailón, Andrew Guess, Shanto Iyengar, David Lazer, Neil Malhotra, Devra Moehler, Brendan Nyhan, Jaime E. Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Carlos Rivera, Magdalena E. Wojcieszak, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Annie Franco, Winter Mason, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Joshua Tucker, Beixian Xiong
| Nature
Abstract Deceptive online networks are coordinated efforts that use identity deception to pursue strategic political or financial goals. During the US 2020 elections, these networks reached at least 37 million Facebook and 3 million Instagram users, representing 15% and 2% of the platforms’ active US adult users, respectively. Only 3 networks out of 49—1 network with explicitly political aims and 2 that appeared to use politics as a lure for profit—were responsible for over 70% of users reached.
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