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[Observatory on Social Media @OSoMe_IU]

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Staggering number of people believe unproven health claims https://t.co/qkGxEKXy4d

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Fantastic article (as always from @kakape) on the role of AI in disinformation as well as research on it.
https://t.co/xtGTx2rYL4

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I'm briefly quoted in this long but important investigative piece about Storm-1516, the most potent weapon in Russia’s disinformation war.
https://t.co/exywxR9iiQ

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AI is being used to generate fake MAGA users and content for political influence:

https://t.co/8K68ryVQ1I

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Amazing work by @Mantzarlis at Indicator, finding the first evidence of Community Notes manipulation as predicted and described in our paper (cited within)! https://t.co/UgK8VZ9NqH

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Pro-Kremlin bots cry ‘murder’ ahead of Hungary vote
https://t.co/2sto0NN0fI

[Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala]

Congratulations to my PhD student @Isuruari97 for his #WebSci26 paper. Thank you @OSoMe_IU Fil Menczer & Sandro Flammini for their valuable contributions.

Behavior change can be used for identifying social media manipulation

* https://t.co/o2Sg6KD9w4
* https://t.co/TK93iJ6sPo

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Join us Wednesday at 12pm ET for our final OSoMe Awesome Speaker talk!

🎙️ Alissa Cooper (Knight-Georgetown Institute)
📌 Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

🗓 March 4 | 12pm ET
🔗 Register: https://t.co/SGxlqpJucg

[Observatory on Social Media @OSoMe_IU]

Is it acceptable to use AI to impersonate a candidate during an election and make it appear as though they did or said something they did not, without disclosing that the video is AI-generated or satire?

https://t.co/jK1C7wdMFy

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This story via @ConversationUS weaves together research done with @yang3kc Bao Tran Truong and several others: 🧪 Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs – threatening democracy

https://t.co/H2llrQpPr8

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Does health misinformation kill? Yes.

Our latest paper is finally out with evidence of a causal link between exposure to antivax content on Xitter and deaths.

Effects of antivaccine tweets on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, and deaths
https://t.co/BwgyTGarzV

[Observatory on Social Media @OSoMe_IU]

Political disinfo on social media has overall negligible effects. I always wondered if such small effects, when targeting battleground states, could influence close elections. A new paper analyzing voter-suppression ads shows this was the case in 2016:

https://t.co/cf4SM1JB8O

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Latest working paper 🧪 w/ Shalmoli Ghosh and @mdeverna2 shows that AI porn and NSFW deepfakes targeting women are being commoditized

A Marketplace for AI-Generated Adult Content and Deepfakes

Preprint: https://t.co/uuJc2uSgjl

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More coverage of our recent @ScienceMagazine paper warning about AI swarms:
https://t.co/zVDgyjlvgJ

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Coverage of our recent paper in @ScienceMagazine

https://t.co/dXBRemRK2F

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Our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy.
#SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪
Paper: https://t.co/cmGs4glAbA

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Check your sources, we have been saying...
https://t.co/spUhvu6mpO

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Join us for the next OSoMe Awesome Speaker!

Mirta Galesic
🗓 Jan 28, 2026 | 12–1 PM ET
🧠Dynamics of belief networks

Register: https://t.co/95qm1QdMZt

[Observatory on Social Media @OSoMe_IU]

2024-25 has been an academic year of challenges and opportunities. We have been working on exciting problems, from the exploitation of AI for manipulation at scale to tools for a healthier information environment. Read about it in our latest annual report:
https://t.co/3qWYBAKsWS