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Quote Erat Demonstrandum: AWeb Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Huan-Cheng Chang, Vuk Vukovic

The use of attributed quotes is the most direct and least filtered pathway of information propagation in news. Consequently, quotes play a central role in the conception, reception, and analysis of news stories. Since quotes provide a more direct window in ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Academic Citizens’ Assembly 2022: a way for better decision-making on complex and divisive issues? Interview with Sascha Nick, Researcher in societal transitions

Sascha Nick

The objective of any Citizens’ Assembly is better decision-making on complex and divisive issues. “Better” decision-making means that a fully inclusive group of well-informed people, free of the influence of lobbies and fake news, engaged and knowing their ...

ClimAct (EPFL and UNIL)2022

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...

IEEE2022

The Universal Gossip Fighter

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot

The notion of adversary is a staple of distributed computing. An adversary typically models “hostile” assumptions about the underlying distributed environment, e.g., a network that can drop messages, an operating system that can delay processes or an attac ...

2022

Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends

Karl Aberer, Tugrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Jean Overdorf, Ahmed Furkan Ozkalay

We uncover a previously unknown, ongoing astroturfing attack on the popularity mechanisms of social media platforms: ephemeral astroturfing attacks. In this attack, a chosen keyword or topic is artificially promoted by coordinated and inauthentic activity ...

IEEE2021

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Bryan Alexander Ford

While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...

University of Chicago Press2021

SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking

Karl Aberer, Panagiotis Smeros, Carlos Castillo

This paper describes SciClops, a method to help combat online scientific misinformation. Although automated fact-checking methods have gained significant attention recently, they require pre-existing ground-truth evidence, which, in the scientific context, ...

ACM2021

On Representation Learning for Scientific News Articles Using Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

Karl Aberer, Angeliki Romanou, Panagiotis Smeros

In the era of misinformation and information inflation, the credibility assessment of the produced news is of the essence. However, fact-checking can be challenging considering the limited references presented in the news. This challenge can be transcended ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

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The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation

Quote Erat Demonstrandum: AWeb Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus

Academic Citizens’ Assembly 2022: a way for better decision-making on complex and divisive issues? Interview with Sascha Nick, Researcher in societal transitions

A novel assessment framework for learning-based deepfake detectors in realistic conditions

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

The Universal Gossip Fighter

Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking

On Representation Learning for Scientific News Articles Using Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

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Academic Citizens’ Assembly 2022: a way for better decision-making on complex and divisive issues? Interview with Sascha Nick, Researcher in societal transitions

A novel assessment framework for learning-based deepfake detectors in realistic conditions

Quote Erat Demonstrandum: AWeb Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends

SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking

The Universal Gossip Fighter

On Representation Learning for Scientific News Articles Using Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model