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Friction Interventions to Curb the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media
Laura Jahn, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media has enabled the spread of information at unprecedented speeds and scales, and with it the proliferation of high-engagement, low-quality content. *Friction* -- behavior…
A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
Rachith Aiyappa, Matthew R. DeVerna, Manita Pote +13
Social media are utilized by millions of citizens to discuss important political issues. Politicians use these platforms to connect with the public and broadcast policy positions.…
A General Language for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior
Alexander C. Nwala, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Malicious actors exploit social media to inflate stock prices, sway elections, spread misinformation, and sow discord. To these ends, they employ tactics that include the use of in…
One Year of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter: Longitudinal Study
Francesco Pierri, Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang +3
Vaccinations play a critical role in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and other diseases. This study explores COVID-19 vaccine misinformation circulating on Twitter during 2021, w…
Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter
Matthew R. DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco +2
The world's digital information ecosystem continues to struggle with the spread of misinformation. Prior work has suggested that users who consistently disseminate a disproportiona…
Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions
Christopher Torres-Lugo, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala +1
Research into influence campaigns on Twitter has mostly relied on identifying malicious activities from tweets obtained via public APIs. These APIs provide access to public tweets…