Misinformation, fake news and source credibility

"From Alarm to Evidence: What We Actually Know About Foreign Disinformation’s Geopolitical Effects". Work in progress.

"Does School Debating Reduce Vulnerability to Misinformation? A Field Experiment in Poland" with Krzys Krakowski & Davide Morisi. Journal of Politics, 2026.
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"(Media Attention to) Misinformation Can Undermine Trust in Scientists" with Emma Hoes, Theresa Gessler, Sijia Qian & Magdalena Wojcieszak. Political Behavior, 2025.
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"Truth and Bias: Left and Right. Testing ideological asymmetries with a realistic news supply". Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023.
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"When Do Sources Persuade? The Effect of Source Credibility on Opinion Change", with Andy M. Guess. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2022.
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"Horseshoe Patterns: Visualizing Partisan Media Trust in Germany", with Paul C. Bauer. Socius, 2021.
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"Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment", with Paul C. Bauer. Political Communication, 2021.
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"Truth and Bias: Robust findings?". 2020.
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"An Ocean of Possible Truth: Biased Processing of News on Social Media". 2018.
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Media effects and exposure

"Causes of perceived polarization: An over-time analysis of the effects of media coverage of polarization in three countries" with Michael Heseltine, Magdalena Wojcieszak & Ericka Menchen-Trevino. Political Communication, 2025.
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"Incentivizing news consumption with bots on Twitter", with Hadi Askari, Michael Heseltine, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Zubair Shafiq & Anshuman Chabra. PNAS Nexus, 2024.
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"Non-news websites expose people to more political content than news websites: Evidence from browsing data in three countries", with Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Sjifra de Leeuw, João Gonçalves, Sam Davidson & Alexandre Gonçalves. Political Communication, 2023
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"Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a 'news vacation' and 'news binging'", with Magdalena Wojcieszak, Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Sjifra de Leeuw, Alexandre Gonçalves & Miriam Boon. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
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"The (Null) Over-time Effects of Exposure to Local News Websites: Evidence from Trace Data", with Jane Cronin, João Gonçalves, Magdalena Wojcieszak & Ericka Menchen-Trevino. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2022
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"Micro Influence and Macro Dynamics of Opinion Formation", with Michael Mäs & Bary Pradelski. 2017
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Measurement and digital methods

"LLMs Don’t End Data Science: They Move It to Measurement" Work in progress.

"Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data", with Tiago Ventura, Jonathan Nagler, Ericka Menchen-Trevino & Magdalena Wojcieszak. Political Analysis, 2025.
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"Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text", with Michael Heseltine. Research and Politics, 2024.
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"Statistical analysis of we brosing data: a guide", with Sebastian Stier, Ana S. Cardenal, Andrew M. Guess, Magdalena Wojcieszak & Ericka Menchen-Trevino. Social Science Computer Review, 2024.
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Other projects

"Making social science reproducible: A Conceptualization of 'data review' and learnings from its implementation". Review and Resubmit at The American Statistician.

"The impact of citizens’ assemblies on democratic resilience: Evidence from a field experiment" with Thomas Wappenhans, Felix Hartmann & Heike Klüver.
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"Who wins? Who runs? Descriptive represenation in the German Bundestag over time" with Sebastian Stier.
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"Elusive effects of legalized wolf hunting on human-wolf interactions", with Leandra Merz, Nicolas T. Bergmann, Neil Carter & Jeremy Bruskotter. Science Advances, 2026.
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"Why Do Candidates 'Go Negative'? Unpacking the Mechanisms of Negative Campaigning" with Sebastian Stier, Corinna Oschatz, Alessandro Nai, Jürgen Maier and Nora Kirkizh. Electoral Studies, 2025.
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"Wolf attacks predict far-right voting", with Anselm Hager, PNAS, 2022
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"Do theories of European integration shed some light on a possible disintegration?", 2012
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Chapters

"Google News API" in Paul C. Bauer and Camille Landesvater (2022): "APIs for social scientists: A collaborative review"
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"Source Credibility" in Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
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