Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

M Avalle, N Di Marco, G Etta, E Sangiorgio, S Alipour… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse,,–and
their influence on social dynamics,,,–, especially in the context of toxicity,–. Here, to better …

The state of human-centered NLP technology for fact-checking

A Das, H Liu, V Kovatchev, M Lease - Information processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Misinformation threatens modern society by promoting distrust in science, changing
narratives in public health, heightening social polarization, and disrupting democratic …

Media, culture and society: An introduction

P Hodkinson - 2016 - torrossa.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 media culture and society Page 3 SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara
Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative and …

The polarizing impact of political disinformation and hate speech: a cross-country configural narrative

PN Vasist, D Chatterjee, S Krishnan - Information Systems Frontiers, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Information and communication technologies hold immense potential to enhance
our lives and societal well-being. However, digital spaces have also emerged as a fertile …

A space-time framework for sentiment scope analysis in social media

G Bonifazi, F Cauteruccio, E Corradini… - Big Data and Cognitive …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The concept of scope was introduced in Social Network Analysis to assess the
authoritativeness and convincing ability of a user toward other users on one or more social …

The supply and demand of news during COVID-19 and assessment of questionable sources production

P Gravino, G Prevedello, M Galletti, V Loreto - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation threatens our societies, but little is known about how the production of news
by unreliable sources relates to supply and demand dynamics. We exploit the burst of news …

Hate speech in a telegram conspiracy channel during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

M Vergani, A Martinez Arranz… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of conspiratorial
thinking and online hate speech, but little is empirically known about how different phases of …

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

A Mekacher, M Falkenberg, A Baronchelli - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Deplatforming, or banning malicious accounts from social media, is a key tool for moderating
online harms. However, the consequences of deplatforming for the wider social media …

Retweet communities reveal the main sources of hate speech

B Evkoski, A Pelicon, I Mozetič, N Ljubešić… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We address a challenging problem of identifying main sources of hate speech on Twitter. On
one hand, we carefully annotate a large set of tweets for hate speech, and deploy advanced …

Natural language processing in the era of large language models

A Zubiaga - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Since their inception in the 1980s, language models (LMs) have been around for more than
four decades as a means for statistically modeling the properties observed from natural …