5 papers
How AI Models Manage Epistemic Authority: A Taxonomy and Comparative Analysis of Responses to User Disagreement
Riyadh Alnasser, Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Sumin Zhao +1
Large language models are increasingly used as sources of advice and information, including in high-stakes settings, yet little is known about how they respond to user disagreement…
Credible, Not Always Correct: How Reddit Users Verify AI-Generated Legal Advice
Rebecca Owens, Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Stergios Aidinlis +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by laypeople to resolve real legal problems, against a backdrop of persistent access-to-justice deficits. This article presents e…
Grievance Politics vs. Policy Debates: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Conservative Discourse on Truth Social and Reddit
Yining Wang, Alhasan Abdellatif, Artemis Deligianni +3
We present the first large-scale comparative analysis of Truth Social and the most popular conservative Reddit communities, r/Conservative, r/conservatives, and r/Republican. Using…
State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Tuğrulcan Elmas
State and geopolitical censorship on Twitter, now X, has been turning into a routine, raising concerns about the boundaries between criminal content and freedom of speech. One such…
Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil +2
Many social media studies argue that social media creates echo chambers where some users only interact with peers of the same political orientation. However, recent studies suggest…