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TikTok said that it uses location data to target ads and prevent fraud. But the material reviewed by Forbes indicates that ByteDance’s Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to track individual Americans, not for those purposes. trib.al/j1NtZrO

Congratulations to Dr Kiran Basavaraj / ಕಿರಣ್ whose thesis on the dynamics of misinformation in India was examined by Dr. Samantha M. Curle (she/her) Cristian Vaccari @TravisCoan1 Looking forward to minor corrections. Good luck as you start the next stage of your career as a postdoc UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

Congratulations to Dr. Kiran Basavaraj / ಕಿರಣ್ for successfully defending his PhD thesis on the dynamics of misinformation in India. It's been a pleasure co-supervising you alongside Susan Banducci, Kiran, and good luck in your new position as a postdoc at UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy!

A MUST READ on how parties deployed #misinformation in India's 2019 national election by Kiran Basavaraj / ಕಿರಣ್ in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media Findings support extant research from many countries on challengers & incumbents online Andy Guess Alessandro Nai #eIndia #mpol385 journalqd.org/article/view/2…

The v0.14 release of BERTopic is here 🥳 Fine-tune your topic keywords and labels with models from OpenAI, Hugging Face, @CohereAI, spaCy, and LangChain. Use models for part-of-speech tagging, text generation, zero-shot classification, and more! An overview thread👇🧵

It's here, #ChatGPT with BERTopic! Since yesterday, OpenAI's API supports ChatGPT and I could not wait to implement that in BERTopic v0.14.1. Prompt engineering here is very satisfying and fun to do. I also added a "delay_in_seconds" parameter for us trial users😅

Some people said that closed APIs were winning... but we will never give up the fight for open source AI ⚔️⚔️ Today is a big day as we launch the first open source alternative to ChatGPT: HuggingChat 💬 Powered by Open Assistant's latest model – the best open source chat

Sign up to our free Introduction to Text Analysis course today, running for four Fridays, the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd June, from 10AM-1PM! Please register your interest using this Microsoft Form - forms.office.com/e/Lvr4wXJ1xE

Congratulations to all our award winners! There is so much amazing research being done in Information Technology and Politics, and this was the best of the best this year! Tags in the thread.

📣 New in Gov Information Quarterly:🤖Citizens' Acceptance of AI in Public Services🏛️ w/ Susan Banducci Oliver James @ana_beduschi While humans in the loop do boost AI acceptance, people often prioritise efficient AI: 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #AI #PublicServices #GovTech

You missed the APSA deadline but there's still time to nominate awesome research for ITP awards! apsanet.org/section18/Sect… Deadline for all nominations is 4/1.

I’m delighted to have been awarded the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants for the project studying information acquisition and LLMs. 😀 The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy UCL

🇮🇳 Gukesh D is the 18th WORLD CHAMPION! 👏 🏆 #DingGukesh

Sharing a recently published article with Holli Semetko and Kiran Basavaraj / ಕಿರಣ್ in Social Science Quarterly on the relationship between changes in work status of men and the #gendering of #MentalHealth during #COVIDー19 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ss…

Very happy our interesting study on the #gendering of #MentalHealth during the pandemic is now live on Social Science Quarterly Thanks to Subhasish Ray & Kiran Basavaraj / ಕಿರಣ್ Yashwant Deshmukh 🇮🇳