7 papers
Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Federating Governance: How Community Rules Scale with Mastodon Instances
Rasika Muralidharan, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Bao Tran Truong
The rise of decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky highlights the challenge of scaling self-governance and moderation. As communities grow, they face new is…
PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media
Zoher Kachwala, Bao Tran Truong, Rasika Muralidharan +3
Social media are shifting towards pluralism -- community-governed platforms where groups define their own norms. What violates rules in one community may be perfectly acceptable in…
Audit of takedown delays across social media reveals failure to reduce exposure to illegal content
Bao Tran Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Gianluca Nogara +7
Illegal content on social media poses significant societal harm and necessitates timely removal. However, the impact of the speed of content removal on prevalence, reach, and expos…
Community Notes are Vulnerable to Rater Bias and Manipulation
Bao Tran Truong, Siqi Wu, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media platforms increasingly rely on crowdsourced moderation systems like Community Notes to combat misinformation at scale. However, these systems face challenges from rate…
Identifying Constructive Conflict in Online Discussions through Controversial yet Toxicity Resilient Posts
Ozgur Can Seckin, Bao Tran Truong, Alessandro Flammini +1
Bridging content that brings together individuals with opposing viewpoints on social media remains elusive, overshadowed by echo chambers and toxic exchanges. We propose that algor…