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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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04/28/2022
Reconciling the Quality vs Popularity Dichotomy in Online Cultural Markets
We propose a simple model of an idealized online cultural market in whic...
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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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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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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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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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01/20/2016
The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge
A number of organizations ranging from terrorist groups such as ISIS to ...
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