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Extending the BEND Framework to Webgraphs
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kyle Herdrich +2
Attempts to manipulate webgraphs can have many downstream impacts, but analysts lack shared quantitative metrics to characterize actions taken to manipulate information environment…
Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search
Ronald E. Robertson, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley +1
The content moderation systems used by social media sites are a topic of widespread interest and research, but less is known about the use of similar systems by web search engines.…
Multimodal LLMs Struggle with Basic Visual Network Analysis: a VNA Benchmark
Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
We evaluate the zero-shot ability of GPT-4 and LLaVa to perform simple Visual Network Analysis (VNA) tasks on small-scale graphs. We evaluate the Vision Language Models (VLMs) on 5…
Bridging Social Media and Search Engines: Dredge Words and the Detection of Unreliable Domains
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
Proactive content moderation requires platforms to rapidly and continuously evaluate the credibility of websites. Leveraging the direct and indirect paths users follow to unreliabl…
Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-based Interventions
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
The proliferation of unreliable news domains on the internet has had wide-reaching negative impacts on society. We introduce and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing traffic to…
Detection and Discovery of Misinformation Sources using Attributed Webgraphs
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
Website reliability labels underpin almost all research in misinformation detection. However, misinformation sources often exhibit transient behavior, which makes many such labeled…