Happy to announce our new paper, just out this minute in @sciencemagazine, which examined Supersharers of Fake News on Twitter during the 2020 election w/ Sahar Baribi and Briony Swire-Thompson science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/N

The Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024) was held from June 3-6 in Buffalo, New York. Proceedings are now available to review online: bit.ly/4aHoCVK

The workshop proceedings of #ICWSM24 are available online now: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/index.php?year…

See you soon! #ICWSM24

We have multiple workshops and tutorials this morning #ICWSM24

It is exciting that ICWSM launched a Global Initiative to connect senior community members with researchers from low- and middle-income countries to increase their representation at the conference. Shout out to Cody Buntain | @cbuntain.bsky.social Jeremy Blackburn for chairing this first edition #ICWSM24

Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award winner Diyi Yang delivering the Adamic-Glance Plenary Talk "Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?" at #ICWSM24

Check out our new paper on what happened on then-Twitter in the aftermath of Jan 6! nature.com/articles/s4158…

What a wonderful time of the year to visit Niagara falls with fellow ICWSM community. Thank you for the trip ICWSM Arianna Pera Samantha Phillips Smriti Utkucan Balcı #icwsm24 #icwsm2024

This ICWSM/Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media paper, led by Julia Mendelson, develops a computational approach to studying collective action framing strategies, which can be diagnostic, prognostic, or motivational. journalqd.org/article/view/5…

I’m thrilled that our paper, with Bob West and led by Giuseppe (Peppe) Russo: “Stranger Danger! Cross-community interactions with fringe users increase the growth of fringe communities on Reddit” won the best paper award at ICWSM! 🎉🎉🎉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

Easily the biggest honor and privilege of my career to serve the best research community on Earth ICWSM I'm grateful beyond words to every single person who attended, to those on the OC who made it all possible. <3

Check out our nature comment article on AI generated content during elections: nature.com/articles/d4158… Short summary: There was not much gen AI content during the elections. This was (imo) because it was much easier to generate misinfo/hate content with existing tooling.

We're excited to annouce the 2025 ICWSM PC Chairs! Congrats to Eni Mustafaraj, Juhi Kulshrestha, and Ingmar Weber!

Sad to miss IC2S2, a deep sense of fomo already. My excuse - still recovering from a wonderful week in Ghana, learning and working to build collaborations at places like RAIL KNUST! Take a look at what they're up to over your delicious conference breakfast!

I am co-organizing the workshop on Future of Event Detection at EMNLP 2025 this year ! If you are working in the area, or have thoughts about what event detection should looks like -- consider submitting: future-of-event-detection.github.io Deadline is in 2 weeks !! future-of-event-detection-workshop

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Our* paper on embedding social media bios into dimensions of social meaning was recently accepted ICWSM. We think bios are a unique place of self-expression worth studying/using! * Navid Madani Rabiraj Banerjee Stefan McCabe Michael Miller Yoder Briony Swire-Thompson arxiv.org/abs/2305.09548

A belated 🧵 about our latest #KDD2024 paper. We developed a novel machine-learning approach for identifying fake news *sources* by leveraging network info and active learning 👇 doi.org/10.1145/363752…