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Interval-censored Transformer Hawkes: Detecting Information Operations using the Reaction of Social Systems
Quyu Kong, Pio Calderon, Rohit Ram +2
Social media is being increasingly weaponized by state-backed actors to elicit reactions, push narratives and sway public opinion. These are known as Information Operations (IO). T…
Opinion Market Model: Stemming Far-Right Opinion Spread using Positive Interventions
Pio Calderon, Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Online extremism has severe societal consequences, including normalizing hate speech, user radicalization, and increased social divisions. Various mitigation strategies have been e…
Practical Guidelines for Ideology Detection Pipelines and Psychosocial Applications
Rohit Ram, Emma Thomas, David Kernot +1
Online ideology detection is crucial for downstream tasks, like countering ideologically motivated violent extremism and modeling opinion dynamics. However, two significant issues…
Conductance and Influence-Capital: Modeling Online Social Influence
Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Human interactions are mediated by social influence. During crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, social influence determines whether life-saving information is adopted or immunizatio…
Birdspotter: A Tool for Analyzing and Labeling Twitter Users
Rohit Ram, Quyu Kong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
The impact of online social media on societal events and institutions is profound; and with the rapid increases in user uptake, we are just starting to understand its ramifications…
Evently: Modeling and Analyzing Reshare Cascades with Hawkes Processes
Quyu Kong, Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Modeling online discourse dynamics is a core activity in understanding the spread of information, both offline and online, and emergent online behavior. There is currently a discon…