7 papers
Silence and Noise: Self-censorship and Opinion Expression on Social Media
Xinyu Wang, Emma Carpenetti, Bruce Desmarais +1
Unlike the more observable phenomenon of group opinion reinforcement, self-censorship online has received comparatively less attention. Our goal in this work is to dissect the phen…
The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter: A Case Study of Precocious Adopters
Xinyu Wang, Sai Koneru, Sarah Rajtmajer
Following changes in Twitter's ownership in 2022 and subsequent changes to content moderation policies, many in academia looked to move their discourse elsewhere and migration to M…
The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break
Xinyu Jessica Wang, Haoyue Bai, Yiyou Sun +7
Large language model (LLM) agents perform strongly on short- and mid-horizon tasks, but often break down on long-horizon tasks that require extended, interdependent action sequence…
Many Ways to Be Fake: Benchmarking Fake News Detection Under Strategy-Driven AI Generation
Xinyu Wang, Sai Koneru, Wenbo Zhang +3
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the large-scale generation of highly fluent and deceptive news-like content. While prior work has often treated fake ne…
Social Scientists on the Role of AI in Research
Tatiana Chakravorti, Xinyu Wang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit +3
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into social science research practices raises significant technological, methodological, and ethical issues. We present a community-…
Have LLMs Reopened the Pandora's Box of AI-Generated Fake News?
Xinyu Wang, Wenbo Zhang, Sai Koneru +5
With the rise of AI-generated content spewed at scale from large language models (LLMs), genuine concerns about the spread of fake news have intensified. The perceived ability of L…