5 papers
The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang +1
Understanding susceptibility to online influence is crucial for mitigating the spread of misinformation and protecting vulnerable audiences. This paper investigates susceptibility…
Characterizing Human Actions in the Digital Platform by Temporal Context
Akira Matsui, Emilio Ferrara
Recent advances in digital platforms generate rich, high-dimensional logs of human behavior, and machine learning models have helped social scientists explain knowledge accumulatio…
Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Julie Jiang +1
Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unk…
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar +3
This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale, resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics.…
Hybrid Forecasting of Geopolitical Events
Daniel M. Benjamin, Fred Morstatter, Ali E. Abbas +26
Sound decision-making relies on accurate prediction for tangible outcomes ranging from military conflict to disease outbreaks. To improve crowdsourced forecasting accuracy, we deve…