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Generative AI may backfire for counterspeech
Dominik Bär, Abdurahman Maarouf, Stefan Feuerriegel
Online hate speech poses a serious threat to individual well-being and societal cohesion. A promising solution to curb online hate speech is counterspeech. Counterspeech is aimed a…
Systematic discrepancies in the delivery of political ads on Facebook and Instagram
Dominik Bär, Francesco Pierri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
Political advertising on social media has become a central element in election campaigns. However, granular information about political advertising on social media was previously u…
New threats to society from free-speech social media platforms
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
In recent years, several free-speech social media platforms (so-called "alt-techs") have emerged, such as Parler, Gab, and Telegram. These platforms market themselves as alternativ…
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Dominique Geissler, Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs +1
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical evidenc…
Analyzing Social Media Activities at Bellingcat
Dominik Bär, Fausto Calderon, Michael Lawlor +3
Open-source journalism emerged as a new phenomenon in the media ecosystem, which uses crowdsourcing to fact-check and generate investigative reports for world events using open sou…
Finding Qs: Profiling QAnon Supporters on Parler
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
The social media platform "Parler" has emerged into a prominent fringe community where a significant part of the user base are self-reported supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspi…