4 papers
Multi-MLLM Knowledge Distillation for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Zhao Tong, Ignacio Castro +2
Multimodal out-of-context news is a type of misinformation in which the image is used outside of its original context. Many existing works have leveraged multimodal large language…
Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +6
Microblogging is a crucial mode of online communication. However, launching a new microblogging platform remains challenging, largely due to network effects. This has resulted in e…
Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +1
The Fediverse, a group of interconnected servers providing a variety of interoperable services (e.g. micro-blogging in Mastodon) has gained rapid popularity. This sudden growth, pa…
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +5
The pitfalls of centralized social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter/X, have led to concerns about control, transparency, and accountability. Decentralized social networks hav…