most citedSoftening online extremes organically and at scale

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cs.SI2023

Complexity of the Online Distrust Ecosystem and its Evolution

Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson

Collective human distrust (and its associated mis-disinformation) is one of the most complex phenomena of our time. e.g. distrust of medical expertise, or climate change science, o…

physics.soc-ph2023

Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields

Neil F. Johnson, Richard Sear, Lucia Illari

We show how the looming threat of bad actors using AI/GPT to generate harms across social media, can be addressed at scale by exploiting the intrinsic dynamics of the social media…

physics.soc-ph2023

Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence

Minzhang Zheng, Richard Sear, Lucia Illari +2

Online hate is dynamic, adaptive -- and is now surging armed with AI/GPT tools. Its consequences include personal traumas, child sex abuse and violent mass attacks. Overcoming it w…

physics.soc-ph2023

Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem

Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson

Why is distrust (e.g. of medical expertise) now flourishing online despite the surge in mitigation schemes being implemented? We analyze the changing discourse in the Facebook ecos…

cs.SI20222 cited

Softening online extremes organically and at scale

Elvira Maria Restrepo, Martin Moreno, Lucia Illari +1

Calls are escalating for social media platforms to do more to mitigate extreme online communities whose views can lead to real-world harms, e.g., mis/disinformation and distrust th…