3 papers
cs.CY2025
Local News Hijacking: A Review of International Instances
Christine Sowa Lepird, Kathleen M. Carley
In the rise of the digital era, it's easier than ever to create nefarious websites to spread misinformation. A more recent phenomenon in the United States has been the creation of…
cs.CY2025
Trends of Pink Slime Journalism Advertisement Expenditure and Spread on Facebook from 2019-2024
Christine Sowa Lepird, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Pink slime journalism is a practice where news outlets publish low-quality or inflammatory partisan articles, claiming to be local news networks. This paper examines the spread of…
cs.SI2023
Comparison of Online Maneuvers by Authentic and Inauthentic Local News Organizations
Christine Sowa Lepird, Kathleen M. Carley
Inauthentic local news organizations, otherwise known as pink slime, have become a serious problem exploiting the trust of local news since their creation ahead of the 2020 U.S. Pr…