QSS post-doc Mathieu Lavigne presents at Canadian Political Science Association Conference
On June 5, 2025, Mathieu Lavigne, a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) presented at the Canadian Political Science Association's annual meeting in Toronto. His presentation focused on the role of Facebook and Instagram in the spread of election fraud narratives and pro-insurrection content during the 2020 U.S. election.
Mathieu's study is part of the U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, a large-scale research partnership between Meta and a team of academic researchers examining the impact of social media on democratic processes. The other lead academic authors of this study are Brendan Nyhan, a member of the QS Steering Committee and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Rocio Titiunik, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and Jack Andolina, a post-baccalaureate fellow in QSS.
Mathieu holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University and has been at Dartmouth since November 2023. His other projects primarily focus on misinformation (including public perceptions, media coverage, and the effectiveness of fact-checking), political microtargeting, and societal polarization. He recently published an article on public support for interventions against misinformation in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.