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Watch Your Language: Investigating Content Moderation with Large Language Models
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity due to their ability to perform a wide array of natural language tasks. Text-based content moderation is one LLM use case t…
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies proliferate on the web, with some narratives having dangerous real-world consequences on public health, elections, and individual safe…
CERTainty: Detecting DNS Manipulation at Scale using TLS Certificates
Elisa Tsai, Deepak Kumar, Ram Sundara Raman +3
DNS manipulation is an increasingly common technique used by censors and other network adversaries to prevent users from accessing restricted Internet resources and hijack their co…
Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance
Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar +2
In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were targeted by a wave of "hate raids," a form of attack that overwhelms a streamer's chatroom with hateful messa…
A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories' Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Do we live in a "Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories?" In the last few decades, conspiracy theories have proliferated on the Internet with some having dangerous real-world consequenc…