Photos from Academic Conference May 13-14

Summary

The Academic sessions on 'Online Political Influence and Misinformation', held on May 13th-14th, featured 13 paper presentations exploring the impact of digital platforms on political discourse and misinformation. Topics included AI's role in online interactions, search engines' effect on political polarization, and Russian misinformation's economic impact in Latvia. Studies also covered independent media in autocracies, social media's influence on U.S. elections, and YouTube's content moderation. Other highlights included Facebook's role in female political representation in Africa, propaganda analysis, media polarization in Georgia, censorship dynamics, and social media's impact on collective action in China.

Academic Session Day 1 (May 13)

Photo of Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich), as he presented his paper 'Intelligence or Interference? How AI Agents Shift Online Interactions'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Ulrich Matter (University of St.Gallen) as he presented his paper 'Search Engines, Online News, and Political Polarization'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) as he presented his paper 'Misinformation, Distrust, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the Effect of Russian Misinformation in Latvia'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Michael Rochlitz (University of Oxford) as he presented his paper 'The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Academic Session Day 2 (May 14)

Photo of Juan S. Morales (Wilfrid Laurier University) as he presented his paper 'Moral Characters: Social Media and U.S. Congressional Elections'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics) as she presented her paper 'Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jake Shapiro (Princeton University) as he presented his paper 'Changes in YouTube’s Content Moderation Policy Had Little Detectable Impact on Election Denial Content'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Sophie Hatte (ENS de Lyon and CERGIC) as she presented her paper 'Connecting the Unconnected: Facebook Access and Female Political Representation in Sub-Saharan Africa'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Yelyzaveta Chekhovska (Vox Ukraine) as she presented her paper 'Propaganda diary-VoxCheck'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Davit Keshelava (ISET Policy Institute) as he presented his paper 'Media (de)Polarization Index for Georgia'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jessie Liu (Johns Hopkins University) as she presented her paper 'How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Might Help Control Social Media: Impact of Market Structure on Censorship Compliance'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of David Strömberg (Stockholm University) as he presented his paper 'Social Media and Collective Action in China'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Mateusz Stalinski (Warwick University) as he presented his paper 'Toxic Content and User Engagement on Social Media'. Photo by Dominick Nilsson