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 …

How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical
evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that …

Early in the twenty-first century, global politics hit a major milestone. For the first time, the
number of democracies in the world surged past the tally of authoritarian states. As this …

There is widespread concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in
elections worldwide. Yet data have been unavailable to investigate links between exposure …

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and
behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to …

The rise of “fake news” is a major concern in contemporary Western democracies. Yet,
research on the psychological motivations behind the spread of political fake news on social …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

Liberals claim that globalization has led to fragmentation and decentralized networks of
power relations. This does not explain how states increasingly “weaponize …

Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that remains to be tested by different
disciplines and approaches. Here, I advance a fine-grained frame that should help to …

Following a host of high-profile scandals, the political influence of platform companies (the
global corporations that that operate online 'platforms' such as Facebook, WhatsApp …