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...
Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases
In this paper researchers show that standard machine learning can acquire stereotyped biases from textual data that reflect everyday human culture. The general idea that text corpora capture...
Does Elite Rhetoric Undermine Democratic Norms?
In this paper, the researchers test the extent to which elite rhetoric can erode democratic norms in the contemporary United States.
State media warning labels can counteract the effects of foreign misinformation
The rise of disinformation campaigns on social media has led platforms to lay out wide-ranging solutions to mitigate foreign interference.
A Multi-Modal Method for Satire Detection using Textual and Visual Cues
Satire is a literary device that writers employ to mock or ridicule a person, group, or ideology by passing judgment on them for a cultural transgression or poor social behavior.
Validating Social Media Monitoring: Statistical Pitfalls and Opportunities from Public Opinion
Social media are a promising new data source for real-world behavioral monitoring.
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
One of the greatest risks to human health comes from the deluge of misleading, conflicting, and manipulated information currently available online
