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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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