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Heterogeneous Effects of Software Patches in a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Game
Yuzi He, Christopher Tran, Julie Jiang +4
The popularity of online gaming has grown dramatically, driven in part by streaming and the billion-dollar e-sports industry. Online games regularly update their software to fix bu…
Parasocial diffusion: K-pop fandoms help drive COVID-19 public health messaging on social media
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Becky Pham, Emilio Ferrara
We examine an unexpected but significant source of positive public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic -- K-pop fandoms. Leveraging more than 7 million tweets related to…
FairFed: Enabling Group Fairness in Federated Learning
Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Shen Yan, Chaoyang He +2
Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as…
Characterizing Online Engagement with Disinformation and Conspiracies in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Karishma Sharma, Emilio Ferrara, Yan Liu
Identifying and characterizing disinformation in political discourse on social media is critical to ensure the integrity of elections and democratic processes around the world. Per…
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Dataset of Anti-vaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation and Conspiracies
Goran Muric, Yusong Wu, Emilio Ferrara
False claims about COVID-19 vaccines can undermine public trust in ongoing vaccination campaigns, thus posing a threat to global public health. Misinformation originating from vari…
Modeling "Newsworthiness" for Lead-Generation Across Corpora
Alexander Spangher, Nanyun Peng, Jonathan May +1
Journalists obtain "leads", or story ideas, by reading large corpora of government records: court cases, proposed bills, etc. However, only a small percentage of such records are i…