4 papers
Language Mutations Sustain the Persistences of Conspiracy Theories on Social Media
Calvin Yixiang Cheng, Dorian Quelle, Scott A. Hale
This study investigates how language mutations affect the persistent diffusion of conspiracy theories on social media. Drawing on a three-year dataset of conspiracy-related posts f…
AutoRedTrader: Autonomous Red Teaming of Trading Agents through Synthetic Misinformation Injection
Zhiwei Liu, Yangyang Yu, Yupeng Cao +8
LLM-based financial agents increasingly rely on both numerical market data and textual signals for sequential trading and stock prediction. However, financial misinformation often…
Lost in translation: using global fact-checks to measure multilingual misinformation prevalence, spread, and evolution
Dorian Quelle, Calvin Cheng, Alexandre Bovet +1
Misinformation and disinformation are growing threats in the digital age, affecting people across languages and borders. However, no research has investigated the prevalence of mul…
Beyond English: Evaluating Automated Measurement of Moral Foundations in Non-English Discourse with a Chinese Case Study
Calvin Yixiang Cheng, Scott A Hale
This study explores computational approaches for measuring moral foundations (MFs) in non-English corpora. Since most resources are developed primarily for English, cross-linguisti…