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most citedDetecting race and gender bias in visual representation of AI on web search engines

34 citations · 83 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.CL2026

SWARM: A Multilingual Human-Annotated Dataset for Russian Propaganda Detection in Search Engine Results

Manuel Tonneau, Abhinav Dubey, Farhan Shaikh +8

Russian state propaganda spreads across many languages and online spaces. Yet, most computational work examines only one such space, usually social media, in one or two languages,…

cs.CY2026

High-Risk Memories? Comparative audit of the representation of Second World War atrocities in Ukraine by generative AI applications

Mykola Makhortykh, Victoria Vziatysheva, Maryna Sydorova

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models poses new possibilities and risks for how the past is remembered by accelerating content production and altering the p…

cs.CY2026

Analyzing Far-Right Telegram Channels as Constituents of Information Autocracy in Russia

Polina Smirnova, Mykola Makhortykh

This study examines how Russian far-right communities on Telegram shape perceptions of political figures through memes and visual narratives. Far from passive spectators, these act…

cs.CY2025

Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine

Mykola Makhortykh, Miglė Bareikytė

The rise of generative AI (genAI) can transform the representation of different aspects of social reality, including modern wars. While scholarship has largely focused on the milit…

cs.CY2025

Invisible in Search? Auditing Aesthetic Bias in the Visual Representation of Holocaust Victims on Google

Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rohrbach, Maryna Sydorova

Information retrieval systems, such as search engines, increasingly shape the representation of the past and present states of social reality. Despite their importance, these syste…

cs.CY2025

Incorporation of journalistic approaches into algorithm design

Mariella Bastian, Damian Trilling, Mykola Makhortykh

The growing adoption of algorithm-powered tools in journalism enables new possibilities and raises many concerns. One way of addressing these concerns is by integrating journalisti…