Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media
platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there is little consensus on …

We use an experiment across the Arab Twittersphere and a nationally representative survey
experiment in Lebanon to evaluate what types of counter-speech interventions are most …

Affective polarization—growing animosity and hostility between political rivals—has become
increasingly characteristic of Western politics. While this phenomenon is well-documented …

Many are concerned with the proliferation of false information on social media. This article
explores whether “social norm-based nudges” can help address this issue by changing the …

Abstract The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from
Hate Speech on Twitter Rafael Jimenez-Duran University of Chicago November 2022 New …

In text, images, merged surveys, voter files, and elsewhere, data sets are often missing
important covariates, either because they are latent features of observations (such as …

The circulation of hostile political rumors (including but not limited to false news and
conspiracy theories) has gained prominence in public debates across advanced …

How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate
directly with the public on social media? Do citizens address them differently? We apply …

My first publication as a grad student was a field experiment using Twitter “bots” to socially
sanction users engaged in racist harassment. The ascendant paradigm in quantitative social …