Join us Wednesday at 12pm ET for our final OSoMe Awesome Speaker talk!
🎙️ Alissa Cooper (Knight-Georgetown Institute)
📌 Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First
🗓 March 4 | 12pm ET
🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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We’re excited to welcome Mirta Galesic as our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker!
🗓 Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026
⏰ 12:00–1:00 PM ET
🎙 Dynamics of belief networks
Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
2024-25 has been an academic year of challenges and opportunities. We have been working on exciting problems, such as the exploitation of AI for manipulation at scale and tools to promote a healthier information environment. Read all about it in our latest annual report:
osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
Even though our website is down, registration for our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker is open!
📅 Dec 3 @ 12pm ET
🎤 James Evans (UChicago)
📖 Information Laundering: How Misinformation Gets Cleaned and Dirty Across Digital and Policy Ecosystems
Register directly through Zoom: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
For those of you who missed it, the recording of Petter Törnberg's talk is now available!
Flyer for Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media Awesome Speakers. OSoMe Awesome Speakers is a virtual event that aims to provide a platform for leading scholars and researchers to share their work and insights about social media manipulation and misinformation. Speaker: Petter Tornberg, University of Amsterdam. Date: November 12, 2025. Time, 12pm to 1pm ET. Register and see the full list of speakers at osome.iu.edu/events.
OSoMe Awesome Speakers is back TOMORROW 🥳
Join us for Petter Törnberg's talk, Studying Digital Media in the Post-Social Media Era, at 12pm ET.
Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We're wrapping up the semester with THREE OSoMe Awesome Speakers!
📅 November 12 @ 12 PM ET
Petter Törnberg, University of Amsterdam
📅 November 19 @ 12 PM ET
Michelle Amazeen, Boston University
📅 December 3 @ 12 PM ET
James Evans, University of Chicago
Register: osome.iu.edu/events/speak...
Don't forget, we kick off the 2025-2026 OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren tomorrow!
Register for the 12pm ET talk here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re kicking off this year’s OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren!
📅 September 12 | 12pm ET
🎤 Talk: Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky
🔗 iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🎉 After 8 amazing years, Hoaxy is retiring! Its legacy lives on in OSoMeNet—our new, unified tool for social media research. Thank you for supporting Hoaxy! 🙌
osome.iu.edu/tools/osomen...
Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data:
🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts
🔍 Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts
🌐 OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms
Learn more and try them out:
osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
Maintenance is finally complete! Botometer X and the rest of our tools are functioning properly again! 🎉
Scheduled maintenance on Botometer X is taking a bit longer than expected. Thanks for your patience — updates coming soon! 🚧🛠️
Platforms are shifting toward community-driven content moderation, but are they giving users the right tools to succeed?
Join us March 5 at 12PM ET for a talk with Dr. Amy Zhang on how platform design can support users in shaping healthier online spaces.
Register now: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This event is happening TOMORROW (February 6th)!
🔊 Don’t miss our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker: Dr. Deen Freelon!
📅 Feb 6, 12 PM ET | 💻 Online
📢 Computational Research in the Post-API Age
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