Thomas Renault

University Paris-Saclay

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Thomas Renault

I am a Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Saclay. My research lies at the intersection of economics, finance, and technology, with a particular focus on applying machine learning and textual analysis to study the impact of media and social media. I am also the creator of the blog Captain Economics and consultant in AI and LLM at the Banque de France.

Selected list of publications:

- Community-based fact-checking reduces the spread of misleading posts on social media (2026), Nature Communications (Forthcoming)

- Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X's Community Notes (2025), PNAS

- The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration (2024), The Economic Journal



Selected list of working papers:

- @Grok Is This True? LLM-Powered Fact-Checking on Social Media (2025), with M. Mosleh and D. Rand

- Emotions and Policy Views (2025), with E. Davoine, S. Stantcheva and Y. Algan



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Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Media
  • Media Economics
  • Machine Learning
  • Financial Markets
  • Misinformation
  • Behavioral Finance