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Does Content Moderation Lead Users Away from Fringe Movements? Evidence from a Recovery Community
Giuseppe Russo, Maciej Styczen, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +1
Online platforms have sanctioned individuals and communities associated with fringe movements linked to hate speech, violence, and terrorism, but can these sanctions contribute to…
Meat-Free Day Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions but Poses Challenges for Customer Retention and Adherence to Dietary Guidelines
Giuseppe Russo, Kristina Gligorić, Vincent Moreau +1
Reducing meat consumption is crucial for achieving global environmental and nutritional targets. Meat-Free Day (MFD) is a widely adopted strategy to address this challenge by encou…
Post Guidance for Online Communities
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, Ryan Lewis +1
Effective content moderation in online communities is often a delicate balance between maintaining content quality and fostering user participation. In this paper, we introduce pos…
The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates
Giuseppe Russo Latona, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tim R. Davidson +2
Journals and conferences worry that peer reviews assisted by artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, large language models (LLMs), may negatively influence the validity and fa…
Can Language Models Recognize Convincing Arguments?
Paula Rescala, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiancheng Hu +1
The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about their potential to create and propagate convincing narratives. Here, we study their performance in detec…
On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Francesco Salvi, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Riccardo Gallotti +1
The development and popularization of large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns that they will be used to create tailor-made, convincing arguments to push false or misleadi…
Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Jordi Cluet i Martinell +2
From politicians to podcast hosts, online platforms have systematically banned (``deplatformed'') influential users for breaking platform guidelines. Previous inquiries on the effe…
Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work
Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Philip Cozzolino +3
We show that the use of large language models (LLMs) is prevalent among crowd workers, and that targeted mitigation strategies can significantly reduce, but not eliminate, LLM use.…
Protection from Evil and Good: The Differential Effects of Page Protection on Wikipedia Article Quality
Thorsten Ruprechter, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West +1
Wikipedia, the Web's largest encyclopedia, frequently faces content disputes or malicious users seeking to subvert its integrity. Administrators can mitigate such disruptions by en…
Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit
Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West
Fringe communities promoting conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies have thrived on mainstream platforms, raising questions about the mechanisms driving their growth. Here, w…