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InfoOps Bench: A live information operations safety benchmark
Dorian Quelle, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Jonathan Bright +1
The paper introduces InfoOps Bench, a continuously updated benchmark that measures how easily frontier language models can be co-opted for state-backed information operations, usin…
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…
Simple contagion drives population-scale platform migration
Dorian Quelle, Frederic Denker, Prashant Garg +1
Social media platforms mediate professional communication, political expression, and community formation, making the rare instances when users collectively abandon an incumbent pla…
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…
Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci +2
Online political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience…
Effective Yet Ephemeral Propaganda Defense: There Needs to Be More than One-Shot Inoculation to Enhance Critical Thinking
Nicolas Hoferer, Kilian Sprenkamp, Dorian Christoph Quelle +4
In today's media landscape, propaganda distribution has a significant impact on society. It sows confusion, undermines democratic processes, and leads to increasingly difficult dec…