3 papers
cs.CV2024
PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter
Pujan Paudel, Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn +1
Images are a powerful and immediate vehicle to carry misleading or outright false messages, yet identifying image-based misinformation at scale poses unique challenges. In this pap…
cs.CL2024
Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation
Pujan Paudel, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Rebecca Auger +2
Automated soft moderation systems are unable to ascertain if a post supports or refutes a false claim, resulting in a large number of contextual false positives. This limits their…
cs.CY2024
Unraveling the Web of Disinformation: Exploring the Larger Context of State-Sponsored Influence Campaigns on Twitter
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Pujan Paudel +2
Social media platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for connectivity and exchange of ideas; however, they also serve as fertile grounds for the dissemination of disinformation…