Do hard and soft news reach the same people or different audiences? @julia_kling answers this age-old question with data on 60 million Russians on platform VK. Together with @florian_toepfl we show that soft news extends news exposure. Implications of war in paper. #ICA2023

🚨New Publication 🚨as a result of our DAAD News exchange with Axel Bruns‘s team at QUT Digital Media Research Centre 🎉 Congratulations!

This Financial Times piece on the effectiveness of Russian propaganda cites our @MisinfoReview study in which @julia_kling @florian_toepfl @richrdfletchermap & I map the website & mobile app audiences of RT & Sputnik: ft.com/content/4a94ab… Full study: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/mappin…

**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY** Are there patterns to the proliferation of misleading information? If so, can machine learning contribute to identifying these? This article by Noëlle Lebernegg, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Peter Tolochko, & Hajo Boomgaarden says: yes! 🧵⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Join us this Friday - I will be sharing some insights from my research at Rusinform on the organisation of Russian troll farms.

As the acceptance letters for #ECREA2024 have gone out, please also consider applying for our pre-conference, which will take place on Monday 23 September. The deadline for proposals of 300-500 words is 3 April.

The deadline is tomorrow! We are waiting for your proposal and to see you in September these year at Ljubljana!

UPDATE: We have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for the pre-conference until 14 April 2024. We look forward to receiving your applications!

This ACM CHI Conference paper found people perceive content labeled as human and AI-generated as equally original, trustworthy, and informative. Perceptions are bound to change as Generative AI becomes more used. Can someone please do some meta-analysis on this!? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

If you ask an LLM "are you sure" and you get back a different answer, there's a strong chance it's just making stuff up.

📣Calling all early-career researchers in social sciences! Join our FREE 5-day workshop on #LargeLanguageModels Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 23-27 September 2024! We offer in-depth lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research projects!🤓😍llmsforsocialscience.net