4 papers
Deepfakes in the 2025 Canadian Election: Prevalence, Partisanship, and Platform Dynamics
Victor Livernoche, Andreea Musulan, Zachary Yang +2
Concerns about AI-generated political content are growing, yet there is limited empirical evidence on how deepfakes actually appear and circulate across social platforms during maj…
OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Real-World Deepfake Detection
Victor Livernoche, Akshatha Arodi, Andreea Musulan +5
Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is a…
Online Influence Campaigns: Strategies and Vulnerabilities
Andreea Musulan, Veronica Xia, Ethan Kosak-Hine +5
In order to combat the creation and spread of harmful content online, this paper defines and contextualizes the concept of inauthentic, societal-scale manipulation by malicious act…
A Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation
Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Sneheel Sarangi, Austin Welch +12
The rise of AI-driven manipulation poses significant risks to societal trust and democratic processes. Yet, studying these effects in real-world settings at scale is ethically and…