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08/21/2023
Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for fact checking
Fact checking can be an effective strategy against misinformation, but i...
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07/30/2023
Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities in generati...
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07/21/2023
Friction Interventions to Curb the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media
Social media has enabled the spread of information at unprecedented spee...
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07/15/2023
The science of fake news
Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Pre...
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04/01/2023
Large language models can rate news outlet credibility
Although large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional performance...
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07/19/2022
Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media
The world's digital information ecosystem continues to struggle with the...
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03/25/2022
Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions
Research into influence campaigns on Twitter has mostly relied on identi...
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04/28/2021
Can the Wikipedia moderation model rescue the social marketplace of ideas?
Facebook announced a community review program in December 2019 and Twitt...
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12/17/2020
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of ...
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12/15/2020
An Agenda for Disinformation Research
In the 21st Century information environment, adversarial actors use disi...
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10/26/2020
The Manufacture of Political Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter
A growing body of evidence points to critical vulnerabilities of social ...
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10/04/2020
Right and left, partisanship predicts vulnerability to misinformation
We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vul...
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07/16/2020
Political audience diversity and news reliability in algorithmic ranking
Newsfeed algorithms frequently amplify misinformation and other low-qual...
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06/11/2020
Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers
Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in ...
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06/02/2020
How Twitter Data Sampling Biases U.S. Voter Behavior Characterizations
Online social media are key platforms for the public to discuss politica...
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05/17/2020
Neutral Bots Reveal Political Bias on Social Media
Social media platforms attempting to curb abuse and misinformation have ...
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05/10/2020
Exposure to Social Engagement Metrics Increases Vulnerability to Misinformation
News feeds in virtually all social media platforms include engagement me...
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04/29/2020
Prevalence of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak
As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, concerns regarding th...
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11/27/2019
Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations
The citations process for scientific papers has been studied extensively...
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11/20/2019
Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection
Efficient and reliable social bot classification is crucial for detectin...
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08/15/2019
Massive Multi-Agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem
Simulating and predicting planetary-scale techno-social systems poses he...
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07/13/2019
Information Pollution by Social Bots
Social media are vulnerable to deceptive social bots, which can imperson...
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05/10/2019
On the Inevitability of Online Echo Chambers
While social media make it easy to connect with and access information f...
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02/06/2019
Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections
It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant...
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01/03/2019
Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots
The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accom...
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01/03/2019
Arming the public with AI to counter social bots
The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accom...
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12/22/2017
RelSifter: Scoring Triples from Type-like Relations - The Samphire Triple Scorer at WSDM Cup 2017
We present RelSifter, a supervised learning approach to the problem of a...
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08/24/2017
Finding Streams in Knowledge Graphs to Support Fact Checking
The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits...
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08/14/2016
Ultra High-Dimensional Nonlinear Feature Selection for Big Biological Data
Machine learning methods are used to discover complex nonlinear relation...
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01/20/2016