6 papers
Science under Threat? A Natural Experiment in Economics
Dominic Rohner, Oliver Vanden Eynde, Philine Widmer
Academic freedom has come under growing strain worldwide. To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in earl…
Who Owns the Online Media?
Ulrich Matter, Philine Widmer
Ownership matters for the media's watchdog role. We map the ownership networks behind thousands of online news outlets in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The networks reveal who is u…
Gen-Review: A Large-scale Dataset of AI-Generated (and Human-written) Peer Reviews
Luca Demetrio, Giovanni Apruzzese, Kathrin Grosse +4
How does the progressive embracement of Large Language Models (LLMs) affect scientific peer reviewing? This multifaceted question is fundamental to the effectiveness -- as well as…
The Dark Side of the Web: Towards Understanding Various Data Sources in Cyber Threat Intelligence
Saskia Laura Schröer, Noé Canevascini, Irdin Pekaric +2
Cyber threats have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. Prior work has extracted actionable cyber threat intelligence (CTI), such as indicators of compromise, tactics,…
Media Slant is Contagious
Philine Widmer, Clémentine Abed Meraim, Sergio Galletta +1
This paper examines the diffusion of media slant. We document the influence of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the partisan slant of local newspapers in the U.S. over the years 1995-2008…
Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints
Dominik Stammbach, Philine Widmer, Eunjung Cho +2
Large language models such as ChatGPT exhibit striking political biases. If users query them about political information, they often take a normative stance. To overcome this, we a…