5 papers
Angry but Accurate: Detecting and Profiling the Counter-Misinformation Ecosystem on Twitter
Eun Cheol Choi, Emilio Ferrara
On social media, many users actively push back against false claims. Understanding who pushes back and how they do so matters, as this corrective activity is central to how misinfo…
Who, Why, and How: Disentangling the Effects of Moderation Source, Context, and Language on Post-Removal Behavior
Siyi Zhou, Lindsay Young, Marlon Twyman +1
Content moderation is a central mechanism through which platforms attempt to balance user engagement with community governance. Yet existing research has largely treated moderation…
The Traffickers' Pitch: Detecting Deceptive Recruitment in Online Job Boards
Siyi Zhou, Peiran Qiu, Tanishq Salkar +6
While substantial efforts in anti-trafficking research and practice have focused on identifying and assisting victims after exploitation occurs, comparatively less attention has be…
Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing Censorship in DeepSeek
Peiran Qiu, Siyi Zhou, Emilio Ferrara
This study examines information suppression mechanisms in DeepSeek, an open-source large language model (LLM) developed in China. We propose an auditing framework and use it to ana…
Tracing the Unseen: Uncovering Human Trafficking Patterns in Job Listings
Siyi Zhou, Jiankun Peng, Emilio Ferrara
In the shadow of the digital revolution, the insidious issue of human trafficking has found new breeding grounds within the realms of social media and online job boards. Previous r…