About

I am a third-year doctoral candidate and research associate at the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich. I am mainly employed in the project “Transparency in Content Moderation” project.

I’m further involved in the newly established Content Moderation Lab as a member and research collaborator, incubated at the TUM Think Tank (see more).

Research Interests

• Transparency and impacts of online content moderation
• Public perceptions of content moderation, free speech and incivility on social media
• Platform governance and content regulation
• Political communication and behavior online and offline
• Survey experiments
• Causal inference

News

New research out:

Nahrgang, M., Weidmann, N. B., Quint, F., Nagel, S., Theocharis, Y., & Roberts, M. E. (2025). Written for Lawyers or Users? Mapping the Complexity of Community Guidelines. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 1295-1314. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35873

Theocharis, Y., Kosmidis, S., Zilinsky, J., Quint, F., & Pradel, F. (2025, February 11).
Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression.
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F56BH