Tiago Ventura

Tiago Ventura is an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. His research interests lie in the intersection of social media and politics and in developing new methods to use social media data to study politics. His research spans topics such as online content activation and propagation; measuring the causal effects of social media usage on exposure to misinformation and political behavior; and testing interventions to counter beliefs for misinformation. He is primarily utilize a comparative approach, using large-scale, multi-country designs to study the intersection of social media and politics, paying particular attention to countries in the Global South. Methodologically, He works on survey research in the digital era, large-scale digital experimentation, and the use of large language models in applied social science research.