Leticia Bode
@leticiabode.bsky.social
Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
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We recently concluded a special article series, “Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data,” in collaboration with the Knight-Georgetown Institute, in which experts explored why access to public platform data is critical. Here’s a snapshot: (1/9)
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We recently concluded a special article series, “Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data,” in collaboration with the Knight-Georgetown Institute, in which experts explored why access to public platform data is critical. Here’s a snapshot: (1/9)
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Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
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Think platform data from social media only matters for election or disinformation research? Think again. George Pearson, a researcher at the Truth Initiative, shows it’s vital for public health—revealing how tobacco companies can target youth, dodge regulations, and influence policy.
Why Platform Data is Essential to Public Health Efforts in Tobacco Control | TechPolicy.Press
Social media platforms are a key avenue for tobacco control research, but as George Pearson argues data access barriers hinder efforts to monitor impacts.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Think platform data from social media only matters for election or disinformation research? Think again. George Pearson, a researcher at the Truth Initiative, shows it’s vital for public health—revealing how tobacco companies can target youth, dodge regulations, and influence policy.
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📣Announcing our new series with @techpolicypress.bsky.social "Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data". Should we be able to understand the risks kids face online? How businesses target consumers? How politicians communicate? These qs depend on access to public platform data. 👇
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📣Announcing our new series with @techpolicypress.bsky.social "Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data". Should we be able to understand the risks kids face online? How businesses target consumers? How politicians communicate? These qs depend on access to public platform data. 👇
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Another in our series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. This week’s elections show how central social media has become to campaigns with politicians on nearly every platform. But as Josephine Lukito and Kaitlyn Dowling explain, access to this data is shrinking.
There is More Online Election Discourse than Ever, But Researchers See Less | TechPolicy.Press
Josephine Lukito and Kaitlyn Dowling explore why public social media data is vital for transparent elections and accountability in the digital campaign era.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Another in our series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. This week’s elections show how central social media has become to campaigns with politicians on nearly every platform. But as Josephine Lukito and Kaitlyn Dowling explain, access to this data is shrinking.
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📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
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Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with KGI, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from Leticia Bode & Peter Chapman.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with KGI, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from Leticia Bode & Peter Chapman.
www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...
www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...
Come work with us! We are a fun and scrappy team. :)
🚨 We’re hiring! The Knight-Georgetown Institute is seeking a Senior Technologist to join our team and lead on the technical aspects of our work on platform governance & competition policy. DC-based or remote.
Applications are requested by November 7, 2025 👇
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Applications are requested by November 7, 2025 👇
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October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Come work with us! We are a fun and scrappy team. :)
It must be weird to be a kid in DC ("free lemonade until the government shutdown is over!") . 😂
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It must be weird to be a kid in DC ("free lemonade until the government shutdown is over!") . 😂
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How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
Come hang out with us and talk about data access! #tsrconf
Also at 11:30am PT, @leticiabode.bsky.social cohosts a workshop w/ @naomishiffman.bsky.social, @angieholan.bsky.social & @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social “Let’s Share: A Framework for Researcher Access to Publicly Available Platform Data” to preview our new framework! Be sure to join + say hello #TSRConf
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Come hang out with us and talk about data access! #tsrconf
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From funding gaps to legal threats, the report shows what blocks public interest research - but also affirms our shared belief: that independent technology research is key to a just, transparent, and equitable digital future.
Read and share! (2/2)
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Read and share! (2/2)
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The State of Independent Technology Research 2025
A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From funding gaps to legal threats, the report shows what blocks public interest research - but also affirms our shared belief: that independent technology research is key to a just, transparent, and equitable digital future.
Read and share! (2/2)
independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...
Read and share! (2/2)
independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...
Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...
Introduction
Abstract. This chapter introduces the core concept of the book, observed correction, which occurs when direct public corrections of misinformation are witn
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August 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...
There's nothing better than seeing a student project all the way through to publication! 🤩
Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations
In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed a bill (SB8) prohibiting abortion after six weeks and facilitating lawsuits against providers and aiders of abortions. In order to understand the nature ...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There's nothing better than seeing a student project all the way through to publication! 🤩
Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Feel this in my bones (via @dandrezner.bsky.social ). "it’s been a shitty week on top of a shitty month on top of a shitty year."
August 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Feel this in my bones (via @dandrezner.bsky.social ). "it’s been a shitty week on top of a shitty month on top of a shitty year."
Any DC friends thinking about adopting a pet? Fees are waived this Saturday!
July 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Any DC friends thinking about adopting a pet? Fees are waived this Saturday!
Tennis player Emma Raducanu on DC heat: "Different level...I think the humidity here as well, it just makes it feel completely like you have just opened an oven and it just stayed open and your head is in there.”
Yep.
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Yep.
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Leylah Fernandez’s marathon of an upset sends her to the DC Open final
The young Canadian sweated out a rally past Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina to advance in three sets. She’ll face Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in Sunday’s final.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Tennis player Emma Raducanu on DC heat: "Different level...I think the humidity here as well, it just makes it feel completely like you have just opened an oven and it just stayed open and your head is in there.”
Yep.
wapo.st/4fi8bTM
Yep.
wapo.st/4fi8bTM
I really want to make progress on my towering stacks of books to be read this fall (partly just because at some point they will fall over and crush me and while that would be a totally appropriate way for me to die, I'd still prefer to avoid it).
July 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I really want to make progress on my towering stacks of books to be read this fall (partly just because at some point they will fall over and crush me and while that would be a totally appropriate way for me to die, I'd still prefer to avoid it).
Stupid questions for folks in information integrity spaces. Where did the 3 D's concept (downrank, deplatform, demonetize) originate? @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social @bgoldberg.bsky.social @alexleavitt.bsky.social @commscholar.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social @jianingli.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stupid questions for folks in information integrity spaces. Where did the 3 D's concept (downrank, deplatform, demonetize) originate? @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social @bgoldberg.bsky.social @alexleavitt.bsky.social @commscholar.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social @jianingli.bsky.social
This book wouldn't exist without Andy's support way back in 2017!
Now published!
@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.
Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)
@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.
Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)
July 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This book wouldn't exist without Andy's support way back in 2017!
@alissacooper.bsky.social, upon hearing I used to have a pet snake: "Yea, that's on brand." 😆
July 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@alissacooper.bsky.social, upon hearing I used to have a pet snake: "Yea, that's on brand." 😆
Special issue of Political Communication CFP on "the political communication dynamics at work in democratic decline—and in democratic resilience" - full manuscripts due December 15.
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Communicating Democratic Decline & Resilience
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July 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Special issue of Political Communication CFP on "the political communication dynamics at work in democratic decline—and in democratic resilience" - full manuscripts due December 15.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
One of the fun parts of my job as research director at KGI is occasionally briefing my colleagues on exciting new research. What are y'all seeing/doing lately on platform design, tech competition, or other related topics?
July 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of the fun parts of my job as research director at KGI is occasionally briefing my colleagues on exciting new research. What are y'all seeing/doing lately on platform design, tech competition, or other related topics?
Must read for anyone interested in tech competition policy.
🚨NEW Report: The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome 🚨
Our report shows a Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible and offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... #USvGoogle
Our report shows a Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible and offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... #USvGoogle
The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome – Knight-Georgetown Institute
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July 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Must read for anyone interested in tech competition policy.
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None of 10 Trump actions we asked about win majority support. The closest are deportation at 49% & Ukraine aid cuts at 41%. Trump cuts to university grants are least popular at 32%, & the rest fall between 32% & 39% Reps are roughly 60% more supportive than Dems across all actions. 4/
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
None of 10 Trump actions we asked about win majority support. The closest are deportation at 49% & Ukraine aid cuts at 41%. Trump cuts to university grants are least popular at 32%, & the rest fall between 32% & 39% Reps are roughly 60% more supportive than Dems across all actions. 4/