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How can we combat online misinformation? A systematic overview of current interventions and their efficacy
Pica Johansson, Florence Enock, Scott Hale +4
The spread of misinformation is a pressing global problem that has elicited a range of responses from researchers, policymakers, civil society and industry. Over the past decade, t…
Artificial intelligence in government: Concepts, standards, and a unified framework
Vincent J. Straub, Deborah Morgan, Jonathan Bright +1
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially in generative language modelling, hold the promise of transforming government. Given the advanced capabilities of new AI…
An influencer-based approach to understanding radical right viral tweets
Laila Sprejer, Helen Margetts, Kleber Oliveira +2
Radical right influencers routinely use social media to spread highly divisive, disruptive and anti-democratic messages. Assessing and countering the challenge that such content po…
Tweeting for the Cause: Network analysis of UK petition sharing
Peter Cihon, Taha Yasseri, Scott Hale +1
Online government petitions represent a new data-rich mode of political participation. This work examines the thus far understudied dynamics of sharing petitions on social media in…
HateCheck: Functional Tests for Hate Speech Detection Models
Paul Röttger, Bertram Vidgen, Dong Nguyen +3
Detecting online hate is a difficult task that even state-of-the-art models struggle with. Typically, hate speech detection models are evaluated by measuring their performance on h…
Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media
Bertie Vidgen, Austin Botelho, David Broniatowski +6
The outbreak of COVID-19 has transformed societies across the world as governments tackle the health, economic and social costs of the pandemic. It has also raised concerns about t…
Islamophobes are not all the same! A study of far right actors on Twitter
Bertie Vidgen, Taha Yasseri, Helen Margetts
Far-right actors are often purveyors of Islamophobic hate speech online, using social media to spread divisive and prejudiced messages which can stir up intergroup tensions and con…
Measuring the Volatility of the Political agenda in Public Opinion and News Media
Chico Q. Camargo, Scott A. Hale, Peter John +1
Recent election surprises, regime changes, and political shocks indicate that political agendas have become more fast-moving and volatile. The ability to measure the complex dynami…
Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence from candidate use of Twitter during the 2015 and 2017 UK Elections
Jonathan Bright, Scott A Hale, Bharath Ganesh +3
Social media are now a routine part of political campaigns all over the world. However, studies of the impact of campaigning on social platform have thus far been limited to cross-…
Investigating Political Participation and Social Information Using Big Data and a Natural Experiment
Scott A. Hale, Peter John, Helen Margetts +1
Social information is particularly prominent in digital settings where the design of platforms can more easily give real-time information about the behaviour of peers and reference…
Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web
Scott A. Hale, Taha Yasseri, Josh Cowls +3
This paper maps the national UK web presence on the basis of an analysis of the .uk domain from 1996 to 2010. It reviews previous attempts to use web archives to understand nationa…
Rapid rise and decay in petition signing
Taha Yasseri, Scott A. Hale, Helen Margetts
Contemporary collective action, much of which involves social media and other Internet-based platforms, leaves a digital imprint which may be harvested to better understand the dyn…
Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action
Helen Z. Margetts, Peter John, Scott A. Hale +1
The Internet has been ascribed a prominent role in collective action, particularly with widespread use of social media. But most mobilisations fail. We investigate the characterist…
Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website
Scott A. Hale, Helen Margetts, Taha Yasseri
Now that so much of collective action takes place online, web-generated data can further understanding of the mechanics of Internet-based mobilisation. This trace data offers socia…