Writing

• Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First, Knight-Georgetown Institute Expert Working Group on Recommender Systems Report, March 2025

• Underexplored Ways to Regulate Social Media, Tech Policy Press, August 2024

• Mapping the space of social media regulation, MIT Science Policy Review, August 2024

• What to Do About the Junkification of the Internet, The Atlantic, March 2024

• How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments, American Political Science Review, March 2024

• How Tech Regulation Can Leverage Product Experimentation Results, Lawfare, July 2023

• We Need a Germ Theory for the Internet, The Atlantic, June 2023

• How to Assess Platform Impacts on Mental Health and Civic Norms, Tech Policy Press, June 2023

• Accountability Infrastructure: How to implement limits on platform optimization to protect population health, white paper at https://www.platformaccountability.com

• Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem, MIT Technology Review, August 2022

• Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem, The Atlantic, February 2022

• Accountability Infrastructure for Recommender Systems: Applying Lessons from Public Health to Mitigate Structural Harms, EAAMO

• A New Approach to Understanding and Communicating with American Voters, The Peoria Project

• Digital Content Effects on Trust: What Advocacy Data from 2020 Says About How We Drive People Apart, and What We Can Do About It, White Paper

• The Evolving Digital and Media Landscape, White Paper

Select Coverage of Technology Work

• Facebook's 'Superusers', National Public Radio

• Facebook Users, In Lieu of Fun

• What I Did On My Social Media Vacation, Houston Chronicle

• Viral Political Ads May Not Be As Persuasive As You Think, Wired

• The White House is turning to TikTok stars to take its message to a younger audience, National Public Radio

• Digital Democracy, Yahoo News

• Tech and Democracy Profile: Nathaniel Lubin, All Tech is Human

Select Coverage of Survey 160

• Polling isn't broken, but pollsters still face Trump-era challenges, ABC News

• Experts assess innovative Cornell election study, Cornell University

• The Vulnerability of Biden (and Bernie), New York Times

• Outgunned by Trump, Democrats Call Tech Help Desk for 2020 Race, Bloomberg

• Pollsters rush to patch fraying methods for Trump's reelection race, Politico

Select Coverage of White House Digital Strategy

• White House digital strategy director to step down Friday, The Washington Post

• White House seeks to turn State of the Union into a trending topic, The Washington Post

• Here’s how the first president of the social media age has chosen to connect with Americans, The Washington Post

• A Digital Team Is Helping Obama Find His Voice Online, The New York Times

• Obama's tech team hopes to make this the most interactive State of the Union ever, Vox

• White House privacy policy updated to explain collection of visitors' data, The Guardian

• Obama’s Social Media Hits and Misses, Foreign Policy

• Obamacare hits enrollment goal with 7.1 million sign-ups, President says, CNN

• Obama endorses net neutrality, USA Today

• Watch President Obama Interview The Wire Creator David Simon, Time

• “Breathtaking”: The White House Releases Its Climate Heavy Hitter on the Polar Vortex, Mother Jones

• President Obama Meets with YouTube Stars to Push Obamacare (VIDEO), Variety

• Meet the YouTube Stars Who Will Interview President Obama, ABC

• LET'S MOVE! President Obama leads Joe Biden in a trot around the West Wing, The Daily News

• 6 things we learned about President Obama from Tuesday’s Tumblr chat, The Washington Post

• Big Block of Cheese Day: From Andrew Jackson to 'West Wing' to Obama, New York Public Radio

Select Political and Other Coverage

• Nobody knows which political ads work and why, Politico

• Injunction against Biden social media ‘censorship’ under fire, The Boston Globe

• How Joe Biden’s Digital Team Tamed the MAGA Internet, The New York Times

• “Trump is so saturated”: Anti-Trump Attack Ads Might Actually Be Helping Him, Democratic Group Finds, Vanity Fair

• An inauguration first: Apps, Politico

• Obama campaign unleashes digital ad blitz in bid to see off Romney challenge, The Guardian

• The Most Devastating Look At How Barack Obama's Digital Team Crushed Mitt Romney's And Won Him The Election, Insider

• Obama Dominating Web Down the Stretch, Ad Week

• Obama Outspends Mitt Romney On Digital Ads 4:1, The Huffington Post

• Technology in the US Presidential Elections, Stanford Center on Democracy and the Rule of Law