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Long-term resilience of online battle over vaccines and beyond
Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson
What has been the impact of the enormous amounts of time, effort and money spent promoting pro-vaccine science from pre-COVID-19 to now? We answer this using a unique mapping of on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shockwaves and turbulence across social media
Pedro D. Manrique, Frank Huo, Sara El Oud +3
Online communities featuring 'anti-X' hate and extremism, somehow thrive online despite moderator pressure. We present a first-principles theory of their dynamics, which accounts f…
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…
Losing the battle over best-science guidance early in a crisis: Covid-19 and beyond
L. Illari, N. Johnson Restrepo, R. Leahy +3
Ensuring widespread public exposure to best-science guidance is crucial in a crisis, e.g. Covid-19, climate change. Mapping the emitter-receiver dynamics of Covid-19 guidance among…
Hidden order in online extremism and its disruption by nudging collective chemistry
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, P. Manrique +5
We show that the eclectic "Boogaloo" extremist movement that is now rising to prominence in the U.S., has a hidden online mathematical order that is identical to ISIS during its ea…