Research Radio

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Scalco, I., Gesualdo, F., Cerqueti, R., & Cinelli, M. (2026). How to detect information voids using longitudinal data from social media and web searches. http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15476v1

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Balluff, P., Ho, J. C., Gruber, J. B., Palicki, S., Palmer, A., Rossi, L., Shklovski, I., & Chan, C. (2026). Newer, larger, better? A critique of the unreflective LLM adoption in communication research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2618486

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Stanusch, N. & Rogers, R. (2026). How AI is imagined by industry during the Sam Altman controversy. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.174979411.18178682/v1

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2026). The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lieu, R., Hayes, O. R., & Cook, J. (2025). Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70049

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Silva, M. I. D., Oliveira, L. D., Melo, P. O. V. D., Goga, O., & Benevenuto, F. (2026). Identifying potentially irregular electoral ads in Facebook during the Brazilian elections. https://doi.org/10.1145/3796545

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Heiss, R. & Freiling, I. (2026). Addressing social media platforms’ influence on academic research. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ny2tx_v2

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Schroeder, D. T., Cha, M., Baronchelli, A., Bostrom, N., Christakis, N., Garcia, D., Goldenberg, A., Kyrychenko, Y., Leyton-Brown, K., Lutz, N., Marcus, G., Menczer, F., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Schweitzer, F., Summerfield, C., Tang, A., Bavel, J. J. V., Linden, S. V. D., Song, D., & Kunst, J. R. (2026). How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy....

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gillespie, T., Shaw, R., Gray, M. L., & Suh, J. (2026). AI red-teaming is a sociotechnical problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731657

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Cazzamatta, R. (2026). From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251413687

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Graham, T. & Carlon, D. (2026). On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409210

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lyons, B., King, A. J., Barter, R. L., & Kaphingst, K. A. (2026). Exposure to low-credibility online health content is limited and is concentrated among older adults. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01059-x

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Linden, S. V. D., Louison-Lavoy, D., Blazer, N., Noble, N. S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2026). Prebunking misinformation techniques in social media feeds: Results from an Instagram field study. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-193

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Szabó, D., Yang, C., Visuri, A., Oppenlaender, J., Sekar, B., Yatani, K., & Hosio, S. (2026). Conversational Inoculation to enhance resistance to misinformation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.379095

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Bollenbacher, J., Menczer, F., & Bryden, J. (2026). Effects of antivaccine tweets on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, and deaths. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00606-1

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Elfes, J., Bastos, M., & Aiello, L. M. (2026). On narrative: The rhetorical mechanisms of online polarisation. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07398v1

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hollingshead, W., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2026). Same platform, different stories: TikTok and the battle over immigration narratives. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.11409

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Kim, Y. M., Dahlke, R., Song, H., & Heinrich, R. (2026). Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519944123

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Balluff, P., Eberl, J., Oberhänsli, S. J., Bernhard-Harrer, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Fahr, A., & Huber, M. (2026). The Austrian political advertisement scandal: Patterns of “journalism for sale”. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241285672

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hameleers, M. & Meer, T. V. D. (2026). Beyond textual disinformation: Comparing the effects of textual disinformation to AI-generated and video-based visual disinformation across different issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409208

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Domenico, G. D., Mangió, F., & Dineva, D. (2026). don't you know that you're toxic? how influencer‐driven misinformation fuels online toxicity. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.70106

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Bak-Coleman, J., West, J., O'Connor, C., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2026). Industry influence in high-profile social media research. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507v1

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: De, A. & Cotter, K. (2026). The discursive flexibility of changecraft: Platform change discourse in Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and X. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251408212

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Dubey, S., Ketelaar, P. E., Dingler, T., Peetz, H. K., & van Schie, H. T. (2026). Investigating perceived trust and utility of balanced news chatbots among individuals with varying conspiracy beliefs. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.108920

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Voelkel, J. G., et al. (2026). A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xwceg_v2