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Shared some thoughts with Andrew Chow on Meta’s decision to scale down moderation policies, noting it goes beyond discontinuing fact-checking

🌐 What does Meta's shift to a crowdsourced moderation model mean for misinformation online? Luca Luceri discusses the risks in TIME magazine. 🔗time.com/7205332/meta-f… USC Viterbi School USC #ContentModeration #Misinformation #SocialMedia

👇accepted at The Web Conference 2025 🍾🍻

The USC Information Sciences Institute 🇺🇸 will be our host organization. We're thrilled to have Fred Morstatter, 🇺🇦 Kristina Lerman 🇺🇦, and Luca Luceri as our wonderful hosts. Looking forward to an amazing event together!

I'm joining School of Computing, Binghamton University as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

Brava Zhiyi! 📄Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11248 🫶🏻We made our resources available to the research community - visit: github.com/angelayejinyi/… USC ISI USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Excited for the ISI researchers at #AAAI25! With a record-breaking 12,000+ submissions, their work on #AI safety, law, security, and more was chosen to drive critical discussions in the field. Read abt it here: bit.ly/4khrBKA @aaai USC USC Viterbi School USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Can we effectively detect covert Information Operations (IOs) that attempt to manipulate socio-political debates on social media? This is the focus of our work, "IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations", just presented at the AAAI

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

📢CFP: Intl. Workshop on Computational Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance (COMPASS'25) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/workshop-… w/ Savvas Zannettou Catalina Goanta Shagun Jhaver Robyn Caplan ⌛️Deadline: April 7 📨Submit your papers here ➡️ easychair.org/my/conference?… Istituto di Informatica e Telematica CNR

📢 COMPASS Deadline Extended!! We extended the submission deadline of the workshop on Content #Moderation and Platform #Governance: sites.google.com/view/workshop-… 📆 New deadline: April 14, 2025 🔗 Submit: easychair.org/my/conference?… Catalina Goanta Savvas Zannettou Shagun Jhaver Robyn Caplan

Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting on.ft.com/3S8BFbG

From detecting information operations on social media to enhancing smart city development, this week ISI researchers return to the 2025 ACM Web Conference to present a number of innovative papers. ⁠ Check out the research spotlights: bit.ly/435bQzE

Amazing talk on affective polarization by our own (incredibly elegant) Ashwin Rao 🇮🇳 at The Web Conference

Fascinating work by Marian-Andrei Rizoiu’s lab on modeling behavioral homophily through inverse reinforcement learning at The Web Conference arxiv.org/abs/2502.02943

Rachel Kim and Ashton Anderson showing that issues are more polarized in the consumption of social media content than in its production, and with greater intensity compared to traditional media The Web Conference dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

"Limited effectiveness of LLM-based data augmentation for COVID-19 misinformation stance detection" by Eun Cheol Choi Emilio Ferrara et al, presented by the awesome Chur at The Web Conference