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Behavior Change as a Signal for Identifying Social Media Manipulation
Isuru Ariyarathne, Gangani Ariyarathne, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media accounts engaging in online manipulation can change their behaviors for re-purposing or to evade detection. Existing detection systems are built on features that do no…
Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking -- Even with Reasoning and Web Search
Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Harry Yaojun Yan +1
Large language models (LLMs) have raised hopes for automated end-to-end fact-checking, but prior studies report mixed results. As mainstream chatbots increasingly ship with reasoni…
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare
Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Meeyoung Cha, Andrea Baronchelli +19
Advances in AI offer the prospect of manipulating beliefs and behaviors on a population-wide level. Large language models and autonomous agents now let influence campaigns reach un…
Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media
Isabelle Augenstein, Michiel Bakker, Tanmoy Chakraborty +13
Social media platforms have traditionally relied on internal moderation teams and partnerships with independent fact-checking organizations to identify and flag misleading content.…
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Valeria Pantè, David Axelrod, Alessandro Flammini +3
Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strategic, collective actions. While p…
Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces
Kai-Cheng Yang, Danishjeet Singh, Filippo Menczer
Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns about their potential to create convincing fake social media accounts, but empirical evidence is…
Social Bots: Detection and Challenges
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Alexander C. Nwala +4
While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges…
Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models
Isabelle Augenstein, Timothy Baldwin, Meeyoung Cha +15
The emergence of tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google's Bard, has garnered immense public attention. These incre…