Book Chapter: Countering hate speech
Counterspeech refers to communication that responds to hate speech in order to reduce it and negate its harmful potential effects.
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Global Data Governance Mapping: 52 case studies
Data is the most collected, analyzed, shared, and/or traded goods or services around the world.
User Preference-aware Fake News Detection
Disinformation and fake news have posed detrimental effects on individuals and society in recent years, attracting broad attention to fake news detection.
Factual Corrections Eliminate False Beliefs About COVID-19 Vaccines
The spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic, with prior evidence indicating that exposure to misinformation has negative effects on intent to take the...
Since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, a new conspiracy theory has emerged in the United States. According to this theory, a high-ranking federal official known only as “Q” provides...
Mining Dual Emotion for Fake News Detection
Emotion plays an important role in detecting fake news online. When leveraging emotional signals, the existing methods focus on exploiting the emotions of news contents that conveyed by the...
Mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and misinformation
Parents - particularly moms - increasingly consult social media for support when taking decisions about their young children, and likely also when advising other family members such as elderly...
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age
When the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal burst into the headlines in March 2018, it cast a spotlight on tech companies’ uses and abuses of personal data (Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison,...
Debunking the Misinfodemic: Coronavirus Social Media Contains More, Not Less, Credible Content
Several high-profile sources have focused worldwide attention on the dangers of misinformation about COVID.
Fact-Enhanced Synthetic News Generation
The advanced text generation methods have witnessed great success in text summarization, language translation, and synthetic news generation. However, these techniques can be abused to generate...