Spyros Kosmidis

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)

⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?

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What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling | TechPolicy.Press Researchers fielded surveys in 10 countries to understand how citizens perceive platforms and potential trade-offs related to free expression.

Musk and Zuckerberg claim to champion free expression—but surveys across 10 countries reveal a troubling gap between billionaire rhetoric and public expectations on social media, content moderation, and free expression, write Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Friederike Quint, and Jan Zilinsky:

US least supportive of content moderation vs. hate speech and misinformation versus nine other countries tumthinktank.de/wp-content/u...

A new large-scale, global survey involving @politicsoxford.bsky.social's @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social has revealed that most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted: ow.ly/O1Lz50UXmVG

Check out our report on freedom of speech and content moderation preferences!

More data from our online content moderation report!

Academic Director Spyros Kosmidis discusses 2025 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods YouTube video by DPIR Oxford

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Director @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social says this year will be extra special: youtu.be/pZEVD3Hhzlw

Americans Show Little Support for Content Moderation of Toxic Speech - In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer, covers the new article by Franziska [...]

When does toxic speech cross the line? Well, it depends.. Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social's recent APSR article on this here: politicalsciencenow.com/americans-sh...

[New Paper] with @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social & @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social now out in APSR!

So happy with this piece which significantly reflects the trajectory of our research agenda at the Chair of Digital Governance!

polisky Commsky

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