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02/23/2023
Talking Abortion (Mis)information with ChatGPT on TikTok
In this study, we tested users' perception of accuracy and engagement wi...
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01/12/2023
Abortion Misinformation on TikTok: Rampant Content, Lax Moderation, and Vivid User Experiences
The scientific effort devoted to health misinformation mostly focuses on...
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07/26/2022
Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media
In this paper we investigate what folk models of misinformation exist th...
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04/08/2022
Gone Quishing: A Field Study of Phishing with Malicious QR Codes
The COVID-19 pandemic enabled "quishing", or phishing with malicious QR ...
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04/08/2022
"Gettr-ing" Deep Insights from the Social Network Gettr
As yet another alternative social network, Gettr positions itself as the...
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06/01/2021
Parlermonium: A Data-Driven UX Design Evaluation of the Parler Platform
This paper evaluates Parler, the controversial social media platform, fr...
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05/06/2021
"Hey Alexa, What do You Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine?" – (Mis)perceptions of Mass Immunization Among Voice Assistant Users
In this paper, we analyzed the perceived accuracy of COVID-19 vaccine in...
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04/01/2021
"TL;DR:" Out-of-Context Adversarial Text Summarization and Hashtag Recommendation
This paper presents Out-of-Context Summarizer, a tool that takes arbitra...
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04/01/2021
Misinformation Warning Labels: Twitter's Soft Moderation Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine Belief Echoes
Twitter, prompted by the rapid spread of alternative narratives, started...
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12/04/2020
TrollHunter2020: Real-Time Detection of Trolling Narratives on Twitter During the 2020 US Elections
This paper presents TrollHunter2020, a real-time detection mechanism we ...
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12/04/2020
TrollHunter [Evader]: Automated Detection [Evasion] of Twitter Trolls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper presents TrollHunter, an automated reasoning mechanism we use...
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06/24/2020
WikipediaBot: Automated Adversarial Manipulation of Wikipedia Articles
This paper presents an automated adversarial mechanism called WikipediaB...
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03/26/2020
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Covertly Manipulating a Twitter Debate on Vaccines Using Malware-Induced Misperceptions
Trolling and social bots have been proven as powerful tactics for manipu...
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02/10/2020
Beyond Trolling: Malware-Induced Misperception Attacks on Polarized Facebook Discourse
Social media trolling is a powerful tactic to manipulate public opinion ...
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02/09/2020
Meet Malexa, Alexa's Malicious Twin: Malware-Induced Misperception Through Intelligent Voice Assistants
This paper reports the findings of a study where users (N=220) interacte...
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08/30/2019