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Information Operations Exploit APIs to Manipulate Social Media
Manita Pote, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Research on information operations has focused primarily on the coordinated accounts involved in such campaigns and in the content they promote. Bad actors manage the activity of i…
AI Agents are Vulnerable to Radicalization
Ozgur Can Seckin, Shalmoli Ghosh, Alessandro Flammini +3
Large language models (LLMs) can influence people's beliefs, yet little is known about whether and how they can manipulate each other. To investigate this, we simulate conversation…
Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content
Mykola Trokhymovych, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Alessandro Flammini +2
The convergence of large language models and social bots allows malicious actors to manipulate the information ecosystem by generating human-like content at scale. Existing models…
Emergence of Stereotypes and Affective Polarization from Belief Network Dynamics
Ozgur Can Seckin, Rachith Aiyappa, Madalina Vlasceanu +3
Our belief systems are shaped by social processes, such as observations and influence, and by cognitive processes, such as the drive for internal coherence. These processes steer h…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote +8
Coordinated campaigns on social media play a critical role in shaping crisis information environments, particularly during the onset of conflicts when uncertainty is high and verif…