4 papers
Who's Behind It? Annotating and Extracting Conspiratorial Actors from German Telegram Posts
Helena MihaljeviÄ, Jolanda Beer, Mareike Lisker +1
Conspiracy theories commonly attribute important events to the actions of powerful and secretive actors. While computational research has largely focused on document-level analyses…
Debunking with Dialogue? Exploring AI-Generated Counterspeech to Challenge Conspiracy Theories
Mareike Lisker, Christina Gottschalk, Helena MihaljeviÄ
Counterspeech is a key strategy against harmful online content, but scaling expert-driven efforts is challenging. Large Language Models (LLMs) present a potential solution, though…
Civil Society in the Loop: Feedback-Driven Adaptation of (L)LM-Assisted Classification in an Open-Source Telegram Monitoring Tool
Milena Pustet, Elisabeth Steffen, Helena MihaljeviÄ +2
The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in monitoring harmful online content is increasingly crucial, especially as platform providers reduce their investment in content mod…
Data Ethics in the Fediverse: Analyzing the Role of Instance Policies in Mastodon Research
Mareike Lisker, Helena MihaljeviÄ
This article addresses the disconnect between the individual policy documents of Mastodon instances--many of which explicitly prohibit data collection for research purposes--and th…