Mike Wagner

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Professor, Director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, Director of Graduate Studies at UW-Madison’s SJMC. Forum editor at Political Communication, AE at POQ, inflated sense of singing/guitar ability, Minnesotan.

Check out our latest tool, the Top FIBers dashboard, to track the worst disinformation superspreaders. (This is the kind of public service that is under attack by Twitter's anti-research API policies under Musk.) https://news.iu.edu/live/news/28277-top-fibers-dashboard-tracks-superspreaders-of

Play with the Top FIBers dashboard here and see who are the worst disinformation superspreaders of the month on Twitter and Facebook: https://osome.iu.edu/tools/topfibers/

The science behind it: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.09524

Credit to @mdeverna2 and the @OSoMe_IU @IUNetSci team!

Top FIBers dashboard tracks superspreaders of low-credibility information online

The Observatory on Social Media has launched the new tool that uses the “False Information Broadcaster index” or “FIB index,” which captures the c...

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The assault on higher ed in TX, FL, etc. will have substantial costs even if the tenure-stripping bills don't go through this time
Is this the end of the Twitter research era? The graph shows tweets over time coming into one of our V1 API data collections.

Elated to have @NathanKalmoe return to Madison and join our team in the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Excited to see how he advances the missions and extends the work of the MCRC, SJMC, and UW L&S. I know @prowag shares my excitement. Forward!

https://journalism.wisc.edu/news/sjmc-alum-returns-will-help-lead-the-center-for-communication-and-civic-renewal/

SJMC alum returns, will help lead the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication has welcomed distinguished alum Dr. Nathan Kalmoe back to Vilas Hall as the new executive administrative director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR).

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Thrilled to welcome @NathanKalmoe to our team at the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Pinching ourselves. https://journalism.wisc.edu/news/sjmc-alum-returns-will-help-lead-the-center-for-communication-and-civic-renewal/
SJMC alum returns, will help lead the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication has welcomed distinguished alum Dr. Nathan Kalmoe back to Vilas Hall as the new executive administrative director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR).

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Headed in to watch the 11y/o play basketball. Let me know if President Biden reports mishandling some more classified documents in the next hour.
McCarthy in danger of the Full Scaramucci: losing the job he was doing before the official start date.
The backlash against pro-democracy reporting is coming

"We will be increasingly likely to hear that pro-democracy reporting is biased, dangerous, and un-American."

Nieman Lab

Wisdom from @prowag:

"Democracy cannot thrive or survive without a media ecosystem willing to report verifiable truths about the core tenets of democracy — even if those truths currently favor one major political party over another."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/the-backlash-against-pro-democracy-reporting-is-coming/?fbclid=IwAR1s4WCR5BsNUeXCl3iekrPnLSVljI1hmzee906H0pNHyjhIgwaCuyEvjyQ

The backlash against pro-democracy reporting is coming

"We will be increasingly likely to hear that pro-democracy reporting is biased, dangerous, and un-American."

Nieman Lab
Kyle Kondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball and UW’s @prowag discussing the 2022 congressional elections at #ERC2022