If anyone is at all curious as to why researchers like myself and my colleagues are under attack (covered in the WA Post this weekend) perhaps some of our papers might be of interest. Here's a recent one on participatory disinformation and the 2020 election: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting paper.. I presume that this research would be near impossible (or at least unaffordable) with Twitter/X's current setup?

Here's another paper — to be presented by lead student Stephen Prochaska in October at the CSCW conference — which explores how Trump supporters mobilized on top of participatory disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 election: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...