Hanna Sistek
@Sistek
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Studying how digital tech reshape political comm and democratic accountability. Postdoc at CAPT/GRAIL, Purdue University. International journalism background.
Lafayette, IN
Joined April 2008
1. How do we encourage healthy information seeking in a #posttruth world? We introduce a new information literacy framework that combines mindfulness with critical thinking. https://t.co/Cu5IvxgeN2 - Helps navigate emotional impact of mis/disinformation & consp. theories 1/3
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New paper connecting smartphones and social media to increasing polarization levels
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. Both profoundly changed the way humans communicate and this rise of connectivity may have fueled
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Media literacy to fight misinfo working in India
🚨 out at @apsrjournal 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️ Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️ Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
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Congrats, Eddie! And welcome to Purdue!!
Congratulations, Eddie Yang, on receiving the 2025 Best Dissertation Award from the Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) #APSA2025 #PoliticalScience @PurdueLibArts @LifeAtPurdue
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But here's the scary part: Gemini's hallucinations were so detailed and confident that they could easily fool humans. It provided specific technical details, historical context, and even emotional insights about Musk's motivations - all for stories I completely invented.
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Final Rankings - Best to Worst: - Claude (Both Models) - Caught both fake theories, actively fact-checked - ChatGPT o4-mini - Learned from first mistake, caught second lie - Gemini (Both Models) - Believed everything. The winner isn't who you'd expect...
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Quite eye opening episode on the history of #OpenAI and where the field is going https://t.co/zZErPGCbXt
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Poddavsnitt · Hidden Forces · 2025-05-19 · 1 tim 7 min
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The list of states going phone-free in K-12 schools is expanding, with 4 added just in the last 2 weeks! Well done NY, OK, GA, AL. https://t.co/p8zS3bywJp Here's the current map:
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When GenAI frames answers in terms of questions and help people think, rather than just providing answers, people learn more. Fascinating episode on how to design beneficial #AI.
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Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-05-15 · 42 min
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No, no, no, no, no. Is there no end to the idiocy? This constant drip-drip-drip destroying everything I care about internationally is heartbreaking.
The 🇺🇲USA🇺🇸 has officially withdrawn from the UN's Agenda 2030 and the SDGs!
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My blood boils reading this. ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison | Ukraine | The Guardian
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The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
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Trump's executive order directing DOJ to investigate ActBlue makes clear we no longer a fully democratic country - my comments to the Associated Press https://t.co/5VfjW402IW
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The First Amendment couldn’t be clearer: A publication's editorial decisions are none of the government's business. Newspaper, blog, medical journal — it doesn’t matter. Back off. When a U.S. Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals over their content,
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face
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Powerful episode about the difficulty of regulating new technologies. With @tristanharris
https://t.co/sjyx41K44B
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Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-04-03 · 1 tim 5 min
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Don’t miss this Friday’s presentation with @MazieMBernard, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Purdue and Chatanya Sarin, Undergraduate Student in Data Science at Purdue. #AI #AIPolicy #EthicalAI #PurduePoliticalScience @purduepolsci @PurdueLibArts @Dan_Schiff @kaylynjackson
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Fascinating episode on Neil Postman’s insights on the influence on different media types on society, with @tristanharris
https://t.co/NLY8DJKYSE
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Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-03-06 · 59 min
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Really insightful episode on the using of uncertainty as a tactic with @NaomiOreskes
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