Memos by Justin Lane
- Bill Ottman
Bill Ottman is the co-founder and CEO of Minds.com, the open-source, free-speech social network. He is an internet entrepreneur and information-freedom advocate who has spent over a decade building...
- Vaccine hesitancy on social media
This research asked a deceptively simple question: what actually drives vaccine hesitancy, and does social media shape it? Working from a nationally representative survey of the United Kingdom during...
- Asia Research Institute
The Asia Research Institute (ARI) is a university-level research institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), established in 2001 as a focal point for world-class research on the Asian...
- Masaryk University
Masaryk University is a major public research university in Brno, Czechia, and one of the country's largest and most prominent institutions of higher learning. Founded in 1919, it spans the full...
- NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems
NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems is a research-center based in Kristiansand, in the Agder region of Norway, associated with the NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and the University of Agder. It...
- De-platforming the Far-Right
De-platforming is the content-moderation practice of removing undesired actors from social media platforms such as YouTube. It has become a default tool against disinformation and extreme speech, yet...
- Censorship Effect(s)
The Censorship Effect is research from CulturePulse and collaborators — including Kevin McCaffree, F. LeRon Shults, Daryl Davis, and Bill Ottman — examining what actually happens when social...
- Stability Map
A stability map is CulturePulse's model-derived picture of where a society is holding together and where it is at risk of coming apart. Rather than a static snapshot of opinion, it renders social...
- Paramilitary Organizations and Cognition
Social instability has become a central concern for governments, investors, and global stakeholders, and the cognitive dynamics of paramilitary organizations sit at its core. Recruitment, in-group...
- Is radicalization reinforced by social media censorship?
Is radicalization reinforced by social media censorship? The question reframes a common assumption: that removing extremist content from a platform reduces the extremism. To test it, Justin Lane,...
- Predicting Fundamentalism and Extremism
Social scientists long held that religious groups were too complex to forecast. A body of computational work argues otherwise: that fundamentalism, extremism, and radicalization can be predicted on...
- Simulating Religious Violence
Simulating Religious Violence is an 86-minute feature documentary that follows an expert crew of computer scientists and religion scholars on a three-year effort to apply computer simulation and...
- Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief
Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) is the first book on Multi-Agent AI (MAAI). It argues that religion and social behavior are not...
- Agent-Based Modeling (ABM)
Agent-based modeling is a computational method that represents a system as a population of autonomous, interacting agents — individuals, or collective entities such as households, firms, or groups —...
- ARES
ARES — Automated Risk Estimation — is the flagship AI platform built by CulturePulse, the company I founded. It constructs psychologically realistic digital twins of target populations and audiences,...
- Digital Twin
A digital twin is a psychologically realistic simulation of a human population or society — a working model populated by many AI agents whose beliefs, values, and behaviors are calibrated to mirror...
- Multi-Agent AI (MAAI)
Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence (MAAI) is Justin Lane's signature method for modeling human societies: instead of training one monolithic model, you build a simulation out of many interacting...
- Croatian Earthquake during 2021 COVID Lockdown
Croatian Earthquake during 2021 COVID Lockdown is a study examining how the 2020 Zagreb earthquakes, striking simultaneously with COVID-19 lockdowns, affected the mental health of Croatian children....
- Science in Sermons project
The Science in Sermons project is a large grant-funded research effort that uses AI and Text Analysis or NLP to understand how science is portrayed by religious organizations. It draws on a Database...
- Complexity Theory
Complexity theory, also called complexity science, is the study of complex adaptive systems: collections of many interacting parts whose local interactions give rise to macro-level behavior that...