Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship

Informacje na temat projektu

SoMe4Dem

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101094752

DOI

10.3030/101094752

Projekt został zamknięty

Data podpisania przez KE 12 Grudnia 2022

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Marca 2023

Data zakończenia 28 Lutego 2026

Finansowanie w ramach

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Koszt całkowity

€ 3 376 955,34

Wkład UE

€ 3 376 955,09

Koordynowany przez

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

CORDIS oferuje możliwość skorzystania z odnośników do publicznie dostępnych publikacji i rezultatów projektów realizowanych w ramach programów ramowych HORYZONT.

Odnośniki do rezultatów i publikacji związanych z poszczególnymi projektami 7PR, a także odnośniki do niektórych konkretnych kategorii wyników, takich jak zbiory danych i oprogramowanie, są dynamicznie pobierane z systemu OpenAIRE .

Rezultaty

Documents, reports (5)

Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset

This deliverable will provide the first version of the data set together with the conceptual and methodological framework required to leverage attitudinal inference for large populations of users in Europe.

Survey on experiments about trust and collaborative vs conflictual language

The survey will focus on different experimental paradigms and the implications of previous experimental work for understanding the causal antecedents of trust and conflictual language in social media.

Platform affordances

This deliverable presents an empirically-informed taxonomy of platform affordances.

Democracy theory and social media

Research paper on Democracy theory and social media: Challenges to liberal democracy and democracy theory

Dissemination and Exploitation Plan

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities. Itwill be periodically updated.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

This deliverable will establish the management of the data with in the project, establishing the protocols for anonymization, pseudonymization, collection, treatment, transfer, storage, encryption, and publication (for reproducibility of results in articles).

Publikacje

Peer reviewed articles (51)

Nature Communications

Autorzy: Maertens, R; Roozenbeek, J; Simons, JS; Lewandowsky, S; Maturo, V; Goldberg, B; Xu, R; van der Linden, S
Opublikowane w: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-57205-X

Knowledge refracted. A bibliometric analysis of conspiracy texts on Telegram

Autorzy: Willaert, Tom; Meyer, Trisha
Opublikowane w: Radices, 2024, ISSN 2736-7770
Wydawca: CUTA
DOI: 10.21825/RADICES.91992

Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding

Autorzy: Abels, Christoph M.; Huttunen, Kiia Jasmin Alexandra; Hertwig, Ralph; Lewandowsky, Stephan
Opublikowane w: Behavioural Public Policy, 2024, ISSN 2398-0648
Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/BPP.2024.43

The continued influence of AI-generated deepfake videos despite transparency warnings

Autorzy: Simon Clark, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications Psychology, Numer 4, 2026, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00381-9

Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition

Autorzy: Segun T. Aroyehun; Almog Simchon; Fabio Carrella; Jana Lasser; Stephan Lewandowsky; David Garcia
Opublikowane w: Nature Human Behaviour, Numer 9, pages 1122–1133, 2025, ISSN 2397-3374
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.07323

The role of epistemic drift in online civic discourse about science

Autorzy: Stephan Lewandowsky, David Garcia
Opublikowane w: Current Opinion in Psychology, Numer 68, 2026, ISSN 2352-250X
Wydawca: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2026.102266

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

Autorzy: Anastasia Kozyreva; Philipp Lorenz-Spreen; Stefan M. Herzog; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Stephan Lewandowsky; Ralph Hertwig; Ayesha Ali; Joe Bak-Coleman; Sarit Barzilai; Melisa Basol; Adam J. Berinsky; Cornelia Betsch; John Cook; Lisa K. Fazio; Michael Geers; Andrew M. Guess; Haifeng Huang; Horacio Larreguy; Rakoen Maertens; Folco Panizza; Gordon Pennycook; David G. Rand; Steve Rathje; Jason Reifler; Philipp Schmid; Mark Smith; Briony Swire-Thompson; Paula Szewach; Sander van der Linden; Sam Wineburg
Opublikowane w: Nature Human Behaviour, Numer 8, 1044-1052, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-01881-0

Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption

Autorzy: Lewandowsky, Stephan; Robertson, Ronald E.; DiResta, Renee
Opublikowane w: Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023, ISSN 1745-6924
Wydawca: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231180809

‘Dark metrics’ and the mainstreaming of political extremism on Dutch-speaking Telegram: A comparative reading of platform affordances

Autorzy: Stijn Peeters, Tom Willaert
Opublikowane w: Platforms & Society, Numer 3, 2026, ISSN 2976-8624
Wydawca: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/29768624261421758

Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-based Approach

Autorzy: Dennis Jacob and Sven Banisch
Opublikowane w: Journal of artificial societies and social simulation, Numer 26, 2023, ISSN 1460-7425
Wydawca: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5170

A Formal Model of Affiliative Interpersonality

Autorzy: Stefan Westermann; Sven Banisch
Opublikowane w: Clinical Psychological Science, 2024, ISSN 2167-7034
Wydawca: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/21677026241229663

The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities

Autorzy: Christoph M. Abels, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn L. Holford, Levin Brinkmann, Stefan M. Herzog, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Behavioral Science & Policy, Numer 11, 2026, ISSN 2379-4607
Wydawca: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/23794607251347020

How Science Gets Drawn Into Global Conspiracy Narratives

Autorzy: Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert, Trisha Meyer
Opublikowane w: Numers in Science and Technology, Numer 29, 2023, ISSN 0748-5492
Wydawca: Arizona State University
DOI: 10.58875/POZR1536

PLoS ONE

Autorzy: Cassells, Duncan; Vendeville, Antoine; Tabourier, Lionel; Ramaciotti, Pedro
Opublikowane w: PLOS One, Numer 20(12): e0338486, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Wydawca: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/783HB

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

Autorzy: Lisa Oswald, William Small Schulz, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
Opublikowane w: Science Advances, Numer 11, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADY8022

Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement

Autorzy: Stephan Lewandowsky; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; John Cook; Sander van der Linden; Jon Roozenbeek; Naomi Oreskes; Lee McIntyre
Opublikowane w: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024, ISSN 2807-5390
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/Q7VBR

Co-evolution of groups and opinions in an agent-based model

Autorzy: Duncan Cassells, Antoine Vendeville, Lionel Tabourier, Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: PLOS One, Numer 20, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Wydawca: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0338486

Tolerance for democratic norm violations increases when sincerity replaces accuracy as a marker of honesty

Autorzy: Kiia Jasmin Alexandra Huttunen, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications Psychology, Numer 4, 2026, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-026-00407-W

A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification

Autorzy: Rogers, R.; Zhang, X.
Opublikowane w: Communication and Change, Numer 1(13), 2025, ISSN 3059-2011
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S44382-025-00013-0

Seeing is Believing: The Continued Influence of Known AI-Generated ‘Deepfake’ Videos

Autorzy: Simon Clark; Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications psychology, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/T7JFK

Revolution by other memes: on the playful subcultures of r/PoliticalCompassMemes

Autorzy: Tuters, M.; Mueller, G.
Opublikowane w: Information, Communication & Society, 2024, ISSN 1468-4462
Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423340

Multidimensional political polarization in online social networks

Autorzy: Antonio F. Peralta, Pedro Ramaciotti, János Kertész, and Gerardo Iñiguez
Opublikowane w: Physical Review Research, Numer 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Wydawca: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013170

Thinking clearly about misinformation

Autorzy: Li Qian Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz & Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Opublikowane w: communications psychology, Numer 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5

Mapping the e-petition ecosystem through Social Media: mobilization in the EU across issues and ideologies

Autorzy: Carlo Romano Marcello Alessandro Santagiustina, Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, Numer 6, 2026, ISSN 2673-8813
Wydawca: Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
DOI: 10.51685/JQD.2026.001

Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science

Autorzy: Stefan M. Herzog, Ralph Hertwig
Opublikowane w: Annual Review of Psychology, Numer 76, 2026, ISSN 0066-4308
Wydawca: Annual Reviews
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-PSYCH-020924-124753

Validating Argument-Based Opinion Dynamics with Survey Experiments

Autorzy: Sven Banisch and Hawal Shamon
Opublikowane w: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2024, ISSN 1460-7425
Wydawca: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5305

How Influencers and Multipliers Drive Polarization and Issue Alignment on Twitter/X

Autorzy: Armin Pournaki, Felix Gaisbauer, Eckehard Olbrich
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Numer 19, 2025, ISSN 2334-0770
Wydawca: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
DOI: 10.1609/ICWSM.V19I1.35890

Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines

Autorzy: Ralph Hertwig, Stefan M. Herzog, Anastasia Kozyreva
Opublikowane w: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Numer 19, 2025, ISSN 1745-6916
Wydawca: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231188052

Mapping the political landscape from data traces: Multidimensional opinions of users, politicians and media outlets on X

Autorzy: Antoine Vendeville, Jimena Royo-Letelier, Duncan Cassells, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Maxime Crépel, Tim Faverjon, Théophile Lenoir, Béatrice Mazoyer, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Armin Pournaki, Hiroki Yamashita, Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: Data in Brief, Numer 65, 2026, ISSN 2352-3409
Wydawca: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2026.112615

Critical ignoring when information abundance is detrimental to democracy

Autorzy: Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig
Opublikowane w: Current Opinion in Psychology, Numer 66, 2026, ISSN 2352-250X
Wydawca: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2025.102128

The social dilemma of online segregation: A dynamical model of platform choice

Autorzy: Sven Banisch, Dennis Jacob, Tom Willaert, Eckehard Olbrich
Opublikowane w: Rationality and Society, 2026, ISSN 1043-4631
Wydawca: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/10434631261428850

Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies

Autorzy: Fabio Carrella, Segun T. Aroyehun, Jana Lasser, Almog Simchon, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Nature Communications, Numer 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-56753-6

A computational analysis of Telegram’s narrative affordances

Autorzy: Tom Willaert
Opublikowane w: PLoS ONE, 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Wydawca: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293508

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

Autorzy: Gordon Pennycook; Adam J. Berinsky; Puneet Bhargava; Hause Lin; Rocky Cole; Beth Goldberg; Stephan Lewandowsky; David G. Rand
Opublikowane w: Nature Human Behaviour, Numer 8, pages 2330–2341, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-02023-2

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Autorzy: Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Li Qian Tay; Jon Roozenbeek; Sander van der Linden; John Cook; Naomi Oreskes; Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: American Psychologist, 2024, ISSN 1935-990X
Wydawca: APA
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0001448

Artnodes

Autorzy: Marco Paladini,Carlo R. M. A. Santagiustina, Costanza Sartoris, Giulia Saya, Michele Schiavinato, Gabriella Traviglia
Opublikowane w: artnodes, Numer 33, 2024, ISSN 1695-5951
Wydawca: Barcelona: Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
DOI: 10.7238/artnodes.v0i33.417840

A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions

Autorzy: L. Tay, S. Lewandowsky, M.J. Hurlstone, T. Kurz, U. K.H. Ecker
Opublikowane w: Harvard Misinformation Review, Numer 4, 2023, ISSN 2766-1652
Wydawca: Harvard Kennedy School
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-124

Coupled infectious disease and behavior dynamics. A review of model assumptions

Autorzy: Andreas Reitenbach; Fabio Sartori; Sven Banisch; Anastasia Golovin; André Calero Valdez; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Viola Priesemann; Michael Mäs
Opublikowane w: Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024, ISSN 1361-6633
Wydawca: IOP
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000179516

Investigating the role of source and source trust in prebunks and debunks of misinformation in online experiments across four EU countries

Autorzy: Hendrik Bruns, François J. Dessart, Michał Krawczyk, Stephan Lewandowsky, Myrto Pantazi, Gordon Pennycook, Philipp Schmid, Laura Smillie
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-71599-6

Extracting narrative signals from public discourse: a network-based approach

Autorzy: Pournaki, Armin; Willaert, Tom
Opublikowane w: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.00702

Generative artificial intelligence–mediated confirmation bias in health information seeking

Autorzy: Ezequiel Lopez‐Lopez, Christoph M. Abels, Dawn Holford, Stefan M. Herzog, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Numer 1550, 2025, ISSN 0077-8923
Wydawca: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/NYAS.15413

Auditing the audits: evaluating methodologies for social media recommender system audits

Autorzy: Bouchaud, Paul; Ramaciotti Morales, Pedro
Opublikowane w: Applied Network Science, Numer 59(9), 2024, ISSN 2364-8228
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S41109-024-00668-6

Issues in Science and Technology

Autorzy: Tuters, Marc, Tom Willaert, and Trisha Meyer
Opublikowane w: Numers in Science and Technology, Numer 39, ISSN 0748-5492
Wydawca: University of Texas at Dallas
DOI: 10.58875/POZR1536

How citizens’ experience of democracy can actually pave the way to democratic backsliding

Autorzy: Ralph Hertwig, Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications Psychology, Numer 3, 2025, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00327-1

Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage

Autorzy: Fabio Carrella; Almog Simchon; Matthew Edwards; Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications Psychology, 2025, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00188-8

Effects of preemptive empathy interventions on reply toxicity among highly active social media users.

Autorzy: Lisa Oswald
Opublikowane w: Technology, Mind, and Behavior, Numer 6, 2025, ISSN 2689-0208
Wydawca: American Psychological Association (APA)
DOI: 10.1037/TMB0000178

The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications for Journal Reform

Autorzy: Trueblood, Jennifer S.; Allison, David B.; Field, Sarahanne M.; Fishbach, Ayelet; Gaillard, Stefan D. M.; Gigerenzer, Gerd; Holmes, William R.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Matzke, Dora; Murphy, Mary C.; Musslick, Sebastian; Popov, Vencislav; Roskies, Adina L.; ter Schure, Judith; Teodorescu, Andrei R.
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, ISSN 1091-6490
Wydawca: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2401231121

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

Autorzy: Fintan Smith; Almog Simchon; Dawn Holford; Stephan Lewandowsky
Opublikowane w: Communications Psychology, 2023, ISSN 2731-9121
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00189-7

From denazification to the Golden Billion: an inductive analysis of the Kremlin’s weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram

Autorzy: Willaert, Tom; Tuters, Marc
Opublikowane w: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-025-05382-X

Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics

Autorzy: Katharina Tittel, William Allen, Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: Political Communication, 2025, ISSN 1058-4609
Wydawca: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2025.2588248

Scientific Reports

Autorzy: Hendrik Bruns; François J. Dessart; Michal Wiktor Krawczyk; Stephan Lewandowsky; Myrto Pantazi; Gordon Pennycook; Philipp Schmid; Laura Smillie
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-71599-6

Conference proceedings (4)

Discovering ideological structures in representation learning spaces in recommender systems on social media data

Autorzy: Tim Faverjon, Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2023
DOI: 10.1145/3625007.3627336

Modeling Both Pairwise Interactions and Group Effects in Polarization on Interaction Networks

Autorzy: Duncan Cassells; Lionel Tabourier; Pedro Ramaciotti
Opublikowane w: Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-57515-0
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57515-0_4

The Candide model: How narratives emerge where observations meet beliefs

Autorzy: Paul Van Eecke, Lara Verheyen, Tom Willaert, Katrien Beuls
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on narrative understanding, 2023
Wydawca: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.7

Emoji, Language Games and Political Polarisation

Autorzy: Sara Luxmoore, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Wydawca: ceur-ws.org

Monographic books (3)

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding

Autorzy: Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kempe, Vera; Armaos, Konstantinos; Hahn, Ulrike; Abels, Christoph M.; Wibisono, Susilo; Louis, Winnifred; Sah, Sunita; Pagel, Christina; Jankowicz, Nina; DiResta, Renee; Markolin, Philipp; Schönemann, Henrik; Hertwig, Ralph; Crull, Henry; Mauer, Barry; Holford, Dawn; Lopez-Lopez, Ezequiel; Cook, John
Opublikowane w: EU Open Research Repository, 2025
Wydawca: European Commission
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15696097

Memory in the Digital Age: Bridge or Battlefield?

Autorzy: Marjan Horvat; Jan Babnik; Darko Darovec; Angelika Ergaver; Jure Koražija; Urška Lampe; Žiga Oman; Tadej Škvorc; Polona Tratnik
Opublikowane w: 2026
Wydawca: Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment

Das Anti-Autokratie-Handbuch: Ein Leitfaden für Forschende zum Umgang mit erodierenden Demokratien

Autorzy: Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kempe, Vera; Armaos, Konstantinos; Hahn, Ulrike; Abels, Christoph M.; Wibisono, Susilo; Louis, Winnifred; Sah, Sunita; Pagel, Christina; Jankowicz, Nina; DiResta, Renee; Markolin, Philipp; Schönemann, Henrik; Hertwig, Ralph; Crull, Henry; Mauer, Barry; Holford, Dawn; Lopez-Lopez, Ezequiel; Cook, John
Opublikowane w: 2025
Wydawca: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17627568

Other (1)

Cultural Memory from Antagonism to Deliberation in (Social) Media: AI Approach

Autorzy: Horvat, Marjan; Koražija, Jure; Babnik, Jan; Skvorc, Tadej; Robnik-Šikonja, Marko
Opublikowane w: 2025
Wydawca: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15669714