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most citedMisinformation Warning Labels: Twitter's Soft Moderation Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine Belief Echoes

15 citations · 30 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CY2022

Meaningful Context, a Red Flag, or Both? Users' Preferences for Enhanced Misinformation Warnings on Twitter

Filipo Sharevski, Amy Devine, Emma Pieroni +1

Warning users about misinformation on social media is not a simple usability task. Soft moderation has to balance between debunking falsehoods and avoiding moderation bias while pr…

cs.CR20228 cited

Gone Quishing: A Field Study of Phishing with Malicious QR Codes

Filipo Sharevski, Amy Devine, Emma Pieroni +1

The COVID-19 pandemic enabled "quishing", or phishing with malicious QR codes, as they became a convenient go-between for sharing URLs, including malicious ones. To explore the qui…

cs.SI20221 cited

"Gettr-ing" Deep Insights from the Social Network Gettr

Filipo Sharevski, Peter Jachim, Emma Pieroni +1

As yet another alternative social network, Gettr positions itself as the "marketplace of ideas" where users should expect the truth to emerge without any administrative censorship.…

cs.SI20214 cited

Parlermonium: A Data-Driven UX Design Evaluation of the Parler Platform

Emma Pieroni, Peter Jachim, Nathaniel Jachim +1

This paper evaluates Parler, the controversial social media platform, from two seemingly orthogonal perspectives: UX design perspective and data science. UX design researchers expl…

cs.CY2021

"Hey Alexa, What do You Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine?" -- (Mis)perceptions of Mass Immunization Among Voice Assistant Users

Filipo Sharevski, Anna Slowinski, Peter Jachim +1

In this paper, we analyzed the perceived accuracy of COVID-19 vaccine information spoken back by Amazon Alexa. Unlike social media, Amazon Alexa doesn't apply soft moderation to un…

cs.CY2021

Two Truths and a Lie: Exploring Soft Moderation of COVID-19 Misinformation with Amazon Alexa

Donald Gover, Filipo Sharevski

In this paper, we analyzed the perceived accuracy of COVID-19 vaccine Tweets when they were spoken back by a third-party Amazon Alexa skill. We mimicked the soft moderation that Tw…