Research

My research uses experimental and computational methods to examine information quality in digital environments. Selected work is organized around three connected areas.

PNAS Nexus · 2024

Measuring Receptivity to Misinformation at Scale on a Social Media Platform

Christopher K. Tokita, Kevin Aslett, William P. Godel, Zeve Sanderson, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler, Nathaniel Persily & Richard Bonneau

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Preprint · 2025

It Works When It Works: Measuring the Direct and Indirect Effects of AI Labels on Political Images

Zeve Sanderson, Joshua A. Tucker & Wei Zhong

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Journal of Experimental Political Science · 2024

Testing the Effect of Information on Discerning the Veracity of News in Real Time

Kevin Aslett, Zeve Sanderson, William Godel, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau & Joshua A. Tucker

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Journal of Online Trust and Safety · 2021

Moderating with the Mob: Evaluating the Efficacy of Real-Time Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

William Godel, Zeve Sanderson, Kevin Aslett, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, Nathaniel Persily & Joshua A. Tucker

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HKS Misinformation Review · 2021

Twitter Flagged Donald Trump’s Tweets with Election Misinformation: They Continued to Spread Both On and Off the Platform

Zeve Sanderson, Megan A. Brown, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A. Tucker

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Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media · 2024

Digital Town Square? Nextdoor’s Offline Contexts and Online Discourse

Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Sarah Graham, Minjoo Kim, Joshua A. Tucker & Solomon Messing

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Preprint · 2026

From Search Engines to Answer Engines: Testing the Effects of Traditional and AI Search Engines on Belief in Misinformation

Kylan Rutherford, Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A. Tucker

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Nature · 2024

Online Searches to Evaluate Misinformation Can Increase Its Perceived Veracity

Kevin Aslett, Zeve Sanderson, William Godel, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A. Tucker

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Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis · 2026

Age Verification and Public Adaptation: A Pre-Registered Synthetic Control Multiverse

David Lang, Benjamin Listyg, Brennah V. Ross, Anna Vinals Musquera & Zeve Sanderson

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Big Data & Society · 2025

Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations

Megan A. Brown, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson & Michael Zimmer

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Journal of Online Trust and Safety · 2024

A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Leveraging Data Portability to Support Research on the Digital Information Environment

Zeve Sanderson & Lama Mohammed

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Policy paper · 2024

Beyond Competition: Designing Data Portability to Support Research on the Digital Information Environment

Zeve Sanderson

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Lawfare · 2025

Mosaics of Insight: Auditing TikTok Through Independent Data Access

Zeve Sanderson, Solomon Messing & J. Scott Babwah Brennen

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