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Hierarchical Level-Wise News Article Clustering via Multilingual Matryoshka Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Contextual large language model embeddings are increasingly utilized for topic modeling and clustering. However, current methods often scale poorly, rely on opaque similarity metri…
Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri +1
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented in…
Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley, Emily Okabe, Zakir Durumeric
Understanding how misleading and outright false information enters news ecosystems remains a difficult challenge that requires tracking how narratives spread across thousands of fr…
TATA: Stance Detection via Topic-Agnostic and Topic-Aware Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Stance detection is important for understanding different attitudes and beliefs on the Internet. However, given that a passage's stance toward a given topic is often highly depende…
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…
Twits, Toxic Tweets, and Tribal Tendencies: Trends in Politically Polarized Posts on Twitter
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Social media platforms are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization and worsening public dialogue. Many claim that hyperpartisan users post pernicious content, slanted…
Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have gained traction, an increasing number of news websites have begun utilizing them to generate articles. However, not only can these…
Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation's Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions on Reddit
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
In this work, we examine the influence of unreliable information on political incivility and toxicity on the social media platform Reddit. We show that comments on articles from un…
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…
Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned th…
"A Special Operation": A Quantitative Approach to Dissecting and Comparing Different Media Ecosystems' Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
The coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has varied widely between Western, Russian, and Chinese media ecosystems with propaganda, disinformation, and narrative spins presen…
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War On Reddit
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
In the buildup to and in the weeks following the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media outlets output torrents of misleading and outright false information.…
No Calm in The Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory whose followers largely organize online. In this work, we use web crawls seeded from two of the largest QAnon hotbeds on the Internet, Voat a…