15 papers
A field experiment of social influence and behavioral contagion with bots on Reddit
Hiroki Oda, Kinga Makovi, Taha Yasseri +1
Recent advances in AI have heightened scholars' and policy makers' concern with social influence and behavioral contagion in online communities. We conduct a field experiment on Re…
The Benefit of Collective Intelligence in Community-Based Content Moderation is Limited by Overt Political Signalling
Gabriela Juncosa, Saeedeh Mohammadi, Margaret Samahita +1
Social media platforms face increasing scrutiny over the rapid spread of misinformation. In response, many have adopted community-based content moderation systems, including Commun…
From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Narges Chinichian, Hannah Doyal +6
Community Notes (formerly known as Birdwatch) is the first large-scale crowdsourced content moderation initiative launched by X (formerly Twitter) in January 2021. As the Community…
Endogenous drivers of gender disparity in online dating
Huaiyu Tan, Chenyu Li, Taha Yasseri +2
In its early days, online dating was heralded as a great equalizer, removing biases built into the structures of heterosexuality courtship. However, as repeatedly observed, that pr…
AI Feedback Enhances Community-Based Content Moderation through Engagement with Counterarguments
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Taha Yasseri
Today, social media platforms are significant sources of news and political communication, but their role in spreading misinformation has raised significant concerns. In response,…
How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison
Taha Yasseri, Saeedeh Mohammadi
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in Wikipedia, aiming…