3 papers
cs.LG2020
Classification Aware Neural Topic Model and its Application on a New COVID-19 Disinformation Corpus
Xingyi Song, Johann Petrak, Ye Jiang +3
The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses world…
cs.CY2019
Local Media and Geo-situated Responses to Brexit: A Quantitative Analysis of Twitter, News and Survey Data
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Luke Temple +5
Societal debates and political outcomes are subject to news and social media influences, which are in turn subject to commercial and other forces. Local press are in decline, creat…
cs.CY2018
Online Abuse of UK MPs in 2015 and 2017: Perpetrators, Targets, and Topics
Genevieve Gorrell, Mark Greenwood, Ian Roberts +2
Concerns have reached the mainstream about how social media are affecting political outcomes. One trajectory for this is the exposure of politicians to online abuse. In this paper…