Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
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Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Brendan Nyhan is an American political scientist and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. .. more
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
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Key from @jennyallen.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social: (1) important new paradigm (2) but not clear why results differ
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There are a lot of Trump’s abuses that use powers about which I can honestly say “I was always against presidents having that power,” but pardons and commutations weren’t among them. I never imagined.
"There is no such thing as financial fraud; there is no such thing as a right-wing politician anywhere in the world who is guilty of a crime."
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In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Scott A. Imberman, Ann Bartow
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