At the same time, these recommendations are more commononthesearchresults page than on a user’s homepage or in the recommendation section when actively watching videos. 5/4

We are very pleased to announce that we have awarded grants to 8 new projects, following the first REPHRAIN Strategic Funding Call. Congratulations to all and we look forward to working with you! More details of these projects can be found on our website. #REPHRAIN

Ever wondered how TikTok recommends videos? We are conducting a research study to understand recommendations by asking people to donate their TikTok data! Sign up: mpisws.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2b… More info: social-media-data-donator.mpi-sws.org

Excited to announce, along with Miriam Redi and Eshwar Chandrasekharan, this year's ICWSM Data Challenge theme: Health-Related Discourse on the Web. Consider submitting your work in this space that focuses on exchanging ideas and fostering collaboration! 🔗sites.google.com/view/icwsm2022…

Since I’ve been asked a lot: Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that *you* believe in. Only sell if you think their products & services are trending worse. Don’t panic when the market does. This will serve you well in the long-term.

Attending ICWSM and interested in health-related discourse? Make sure to not miss this year's data challenge(starts 8.30 EDT). The program includes a really interesting keynote talk by the legendary Mia Cha on COVID-19 misinformation and 8 papers on health-related discourse!

YouTube seems to be nonstop scam ads

#ICWSM2023 #Cyprus

Milo Trujillo Ben Horne (@[email protected]) Tiziano Piccardi @sal_giorgi Francesco Fabbri Serina Chang Johan Ugander Kostantinos Papadamou et al find that watching history plays a big role in whether videos from controversial or problematic topics are suggested to the user. Very interesting to see YouTube audits becoming more and more sophisticated ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

🎉 Happy to report that we got two papers accepted ICWSM 2023! More info on the papers in the short 🧵👇 See you all in Cyprus next summer! :)

Letters to the judge in the Celsius bankruptcy case are being published on the case website and they make for some interesting/upsetting reading. cases.stretto.com/Celsius/court-… Some excerpts: 🧵

Crypto bro: AI labs should stop publishing useless papers and make products that increase shareholder value. Me: There would be no new product without the research published in those papers. New products aren't pulled out of thin air, unlike cryptocurrency value.

Academia in a nutshell in 2023...

The same thing applies to academia btw! All advisors should show this to their PhD researchers on paper submission "failures."

Congratulations to School of Computing, Binghamton University Professor Jeremy Blackburn for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Watson College - Binghamton University Binghamton University

Does Twitter/X comply with their advertising policies? We conduct a first large-scale measurement of problematic advertising on Twitter during the regime change in our research (Zubair Shafiq,Savvas Zannettou) by analyzing 34K ads from ~6M tweets - observing widespread non-compliance

I’m hitting the job market looking mainly for tenure-track asst. professor positions (2024)! 🚨👨‍🔬 My core research informs how we should curate content on online platforms — and I’m also interested in how large language models will impact on the Web in the upcoming years.

I am very happy that I had the honor of meeting yesterday Prof. Dr. Hanan Gouda, former Minister of Education of Egypt, Dr. Eiman Negm and Dr. Hanya Riad from Alexandria, Egypt and Dr. Stelios Christophides and Dr. Konstantinos Papadamou from Cyprus 🌟Honored to be part of the

📣If you're a journalist in #Malta, join #MedDMO's upcoming #webinar to share your views and hear new perspectives about #disinformation. ℹFor more information and to register, see here👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…