Below is a listing of peer-reviewed articles and other journal contributions published thus far in 2025 from researchers affiliated with the Center for an Informed Public (in bold).
- Saloni Dash, Yiwei Xu, Madeline Jalbert, and Emma Spiro. “The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale.” PNAS Nexus. (2025)
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf207
- Mert Can Bayar and Scott Radnitz. “The conspiracist theory of power.” Politics and Governance. (2025)
doi.org/10.17645/pag.9781 - Scott Radnitz. “Contesting authority to adjudicate misinformation.” Perspectives on Politics. (2025)
doi.org/10.1017/S1537592725102028
- Sandra Peter, Kai Riemer and Jevin West. “The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2025)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415898122 - Morgan Wack, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy, Anna Beers, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. “Legislating uncertainty: Election policies and the amplification of misinformation.” Policy Studies Journal. (2025)
doi.org/10.1111/psj.70054 - Scott Radnitz, Steven Karceski and Yuan Hsaio. “Disinformation claims and public opinion: evidence from a survey experiment in Georgia.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. (2025) doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2025.2505716
- Kate Starbird. “Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election,” in Steven Livingston, and Michael Miller (eds), Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy. Oxford Academic. (2025) doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197794937.003.0002
- Rachel Moran Prestridge, Joseph S. Schafer, Mert Can Bayar and Kate Starbird. “The end of trust and safety?: Examining the future of content moderation and upheavals in professional online safety efforts.” Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2025)
doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713662 - Ethan Porter, Aaron Shaw and Emma S. Spiro. “Misinformation research continues to be urgent science.” Science Advances. (2025)
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9839 - Rachel Moran, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird. “Privacy versus transparency: Navigating public records requests and adversarial dynamics in a distributed multi-stakeholder collaboration.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025).
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711050 - Damian Hodel and Jevin D. West. “Disagreement as a way to study misinformation and its effects.” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. (2025)
doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-174 - Sydney A. DeMets and Emma S. Spiro. “Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts.” Social Networks. (2025) doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2025.03.003
- Mert Can Bayar. “Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation.” Electoral Studies. (2025) doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102920
- Naomi Miyashita, Zarine Kharazian, Laura De Backer and Kate Starbird. “How strategic information operations affect peacekeeping: Two case studies from the Central African Republic.” International Peacekeeping. (2025)
doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2025.2470342 - Joseph S. Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska, Morgan Wack, Anna Beers, Lia Bozarth, Taylor Agajanian, Michael Caulfield, Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird. “ElectionRumors2022: A dataset of election rumors on Twitter during the 2022 U.S. midterms.” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. (2025) doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2025.002
- Emily Bender, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West. “Perspective—Science is a social process that cannot be autocompleted.” Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. (2025)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401227121 - David Farr, Nico Manzonelli, Iain Cruickshank and Jevin D. West. “RED-CT: A systems design methodology for using LLM-labeled data to train and deploy edge linguistic classifiers.” Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track (2025)
aclanthology.org/2025.coling-industry.5/ - Rachel Moran-Prestridge and Oliver Knesl. “How can the veterinary profession tackle social media misinformation?” Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association. (2025)
doi.org/10.2460/javma.24.10.0665