Data-driven Understanding of the Disinformation Epidemic

Dear all,

 

After received your responses, we have arranged a schedule for you to give the presentations (see it at the end of this message).

The presentation starts next week (28.04).  Every Wednesday from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, we will have two presenters introduce their preferred papers.

See you next week. :)

 

Best,

Rui

 

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28.04:

1. Oliver Schedler, “Go eat a bat, Chang!”: On the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19.

2. Xinyue Shen, Racism is a virus: Anti-asian hate and counterhate in social media during the covid-19 crisis.

 

05.05:

3. Muhammad Salman Edhi, Automated hate speech detection and the problem of offensive language.

4. Awantee Deshpande, The risk of racial bias in hate speech detection.

 

12.05:

5. Rushan Mukherjee, You can't stay here: The efficacy of reddit's 2015 ban examined through hate speech. 

6. Philipp Dewald, Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels.

 

19.05:

7. Raphael Maser, Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls.

8. Anna Calmbach, On Microtargeting Socially Divisive Ads: A Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook

 

26.05:

9. Yiyong Liu, The spread of true and false news online.

10. Tanvi Ajay Gunjal, The web centipede: understanding how web communities influence each other through the lens of mainstream and alternative news sources.

 

02.06:

11. Redion Xhepa, On the origins of memes by means of fringe web communities.

12. Sophie Kunz, Auditing radicalization pathways on youtube.

 

09.06:

13. Rafailia-Maria Chatzianastasiou, A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter.

14. Sujatha Senthurnathan, Prevalence of misinformation and factchecks on the COVID-19 pandemic in 35 countries: observational infodemiology study.

 

16.06:

15. Minxing Zhang, Spread of hate speech in online social media

16. Deepa Mahato, A quantitative approach to understanding online antisemitism.

 

23.06:

17. Rashid Ahmed Nizamani, Bias misperceived: The role of partisanship and misinformation in youtube comment moderation.

18. Prajvi Saxena, (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures.

 

30.06:

19. Zubayr Khalid, Disinformation on the web: Impact, characteristics, and detection of wikipedia hoaxes.