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Ctrl-F-Resist. Practices, Challenges, and Technical Needs of Civil Society Organizations Monitoring the Far-Right Online
Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević
As far-right actors increasingly exploit online platforms to disseminate ideology and mobilize supporters, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a vital yet underrecognized role…
Who's Behind It? Annotating and Extracting Conspiratorial Actors from German Telegram Posts
Helena Mihaljević, 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…
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 Mihaljević +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 Mihaljević
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…
Debunking with Dialogue? Exploring AI-Generated Counterspeech to Challenge Conspiracy Theories
Mareike Lisker, Christina Gottschalk, Helena Mihaljević
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…
Codes, Patterns and Shapes of Contemporary Online Antisemitism and Conspiracy Narratives -- an Annotation Guide and Labeled German-Language Dataset in the Context of COVID-19
Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević, Milena Pustet +4
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, existing conspiracy theories were refreshed and new ones were created, often interwoven with antisemitic narratives, stereotypes and codes…