Friedolin Merhout

TL;DR: It is found that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative posttreatment, whereas Democrats exhibited slight increases in liberal attitudes after following a conservative Twitter bot, although these effects are not statistically significant.

TL;DR: Interactions with IRA accounts were most common among respondents with strong ideological homophily within their Twitter network, high interest in politics, and high frequency of Twitter usage, suggesting that Russian trolls might have failed to sow discord because they mostly interacted with those who were already highly polarized.

TL;DR: This paper found that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative post-treatment, and Democrats became slightly more liberal after treatment, while the effect of following a conservative Twitter bot on political polarization was minimal.

TL;DR: It is found that anti-Muslim searches are strongly associated with pro-ISIS searches—particularly in communities with high levels of poverty and ethnic homogeneity, which suggests that minority groups may be more susceptible to radicalization if they experience discrimination in settings where they are isolated and therefore highly visible—or in communities where they compete with majority groups for limited financial resources.

TL;DR: Disparities in diets for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds that were observed in the freshman year of college were absent in the sophomore year, and awareness of these disparities and trend is important to broadly promote healthy eating.