Writing
Public Writing
Essays, op-eds, and commentary published in the press.
- Lubin, N. “Why New Mexico v. Meta Matters.” Tech Policy Press, August 2026.
- Moehring, A., Cooper, A., Narayanan, A., Ovadya, A., Redmiles, E., Allen, J., Stray, J., Kamin, J., Sigerson, L., Thorburn, L., Motyl, M., Eslami, M., Johnson, N.F., Lubin, N., Iyer, R., & Arnao, Z. “Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First.” Knight-Georgetown Institute Expert Working Group on Recommender Systems Report, March 2025.
- Lubin, N., Mayberry, K., Revel, M., & Thorburn, L. “Underexplored Ways to Regulate Social Media.” Tech Policy Press, August 2024.
- Lubin, N. “What to Do About the Junkification of the Internet.” The Atlantic, March 2024.
- Lubin, N., & Iyer, R. “How Tech Regulation Can Leverage Product Experimentation Results.” Lawfare, July 2023.
- Lubin, N. “We Need a Germ Theory for the Internet.” The Atlantic, June 2023.
- Lubin, N., & Gilbert, T.K. “How to Assess Platform Impacts on Mental Health and Civic Norms.” Tech Policy Press, June 2023.
- Lubin, N., & Gilbert, T.K. “Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem.” MIT Technology Review, August 2022.
- Lubin, N. “Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem.” The Atlantic, February 2022.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Journal articles and conference papers that have gone through academic peer review.
- Lubin, N., Liu, Y., Yarnell, A., Austin, S.B., Ward, Z.J., Iyer, R., Stray, J., Lawrence, M., Cooper, A., & Chapman, P. “Social media harm abatement: Mechanisms for transparent public health assessment” (free version). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2025.
- Lubin, N., Mayberry, K., Moses, D., Revel, M., Thorburn, L., & West, A. “Mapping the space of social media regulation.” MIT Science Policy Review, August 2024.
- Hewitt, L., Broockman, D., Coppock, A., Tappin, B.M., Slezak, J., Coffman, V., Lubin, N., & Hamidian, M. “How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments.” American Political Science Review, March 2024.
- Chmel, K., Kim, E., Marshall, J., Fisher-Love, T., & Lubin, N. “How social media creators shape mass politics: A field experiment during the 2024 US elections.” December 2025.Under review
White Papers
Self-published research, reports, and briefs.
- Lubin, N., & Gilbert, T.K. “Accountability Infrastructure: How to implement limits on platform optimization to protect population health.” White paper at platformaccountability.com, June 2023.
- Lubin, N. “Accountability Infrastructure for Recommender Systems: Applying Lessons from Public Health to Mitigate Structural Harms.” EAAMO.
- The Peoria Project Team (Lubin, N., project lead). “A New Approach to Understanding and Communicating with American Voters.” The Peoria Project.
- Lubin, N. “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.
- Lubin, N. “The Evolving Digital and Media Landscape.” White paper.
AAPOR Presentations
Papers presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research annual conference.
- Collins, K., Dawahare, A., Collins, L., & Lubin, N. “Registration-Based Sample with Speed and Scale: Integrating Text-to-Web into the Voter Poll.” Presented at AAPOR, 2026.
- Collins, K., Dawahare, A., & Lubin, N. “Comparing and Combining Text-to-Web and Panel-to-Web Pre-Election Surveys.” Presented at AAPOR, 2025.
- Collins, K., Bullis, J., & Lubin, N. “Automated Interviewing and the Respondent User Experience.” Presented at AAPOR, 2025.
- Collins, K., Dawahare, A., & Lubin, N. “Optimizing Text Message and Multi-Mode Election Surveys for Cost and Quality.” Presented at AAPOR, May 2024.