Joe Bak-Coleman

Sep 24, 2024 | joebakcoleman.com | Joe Bak-Coleman

I did not want to write this blog post. I hate when science gets resolved by blog and thread. This is why I emailed the authors in November of last year. I shared very detailed concerns and offered to walk them through those concerns so they could retract on their own terms. They declined. Instead, I got the runaround familiar to anyone asking for data available upon request. This was frustrating but not yet alarming.

May 12, 2024 | nature.com | Anastasia Kozyreva |Philipp Lorenz-Spreen |Stefan M. Herzog |Stephan Lewandowsky |Ralph Hertwig |Joe Bak-Coleman | +17 more

AbstractThe spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation.

Apr 6, 2023 | techpolicy.press | Joe Bak-Coleman

Dr. Joe Bak-Coleman is an associate research scientist at the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia University and an RSM assembly fellow at the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. Over the past month, generative AI has ignited a flurry of discussion about the implications of software that can generate everything from photorealistic images to academic papers and functioning code.

Feb 22, 2023 | techpolicy.press | Joe Bak-Coleman

Dr. Joe Bak-Coleman is an associate research scientist at the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia University and an RSM assembly fellow at the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. As Twitter winds down its free API, imperiling public interest and research projects, researchers like myself were delighted to hear that TikTok will provide data access to qualified researchers through a new API.