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Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media
Isabelle Augenstein, Michiel Bakker, Tanmoy Chakraborty +13
Social media platforms have traditionally relied on internal moderation teams and partnerships with independent fact-checking organizations to identify and flag misleading content.…
Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp
Ashkan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Gautam Kishore Shahi +2
There is currently no easy way to fact-check content on WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale. In this paper, we analyze the usefulness of a crowd-sourced "tip…
Tackling Racial Bias in Automated Online Hate Detection: Towards Fair and Accurate Classification of Hateful Online Users Using Geometric Deep Learning
Zo Ahmed, Bertie Vidgen, Scott A. Hale
Online hate is a growing concern on many social media platforms and other sites. To combat it, technology companies are increasingly identifying and sanctioning `hateful users' rat…
Tweeting for the Cause: Network analysis of UK petition sharing
Peter Cihon, Taha Yasseri, Scott Hale +1
Online government petitions represent a new data-rich mode of political participation. This work examines the thus far understudied dynamics of sharing petitions on social media in…
Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Zhaoya Gong, Tengteng Cai, Jean-Claude Thill +2
Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structure…
Online Petitioning Through Data Exploration and What We Found There: A Dataset of Petitions from Avaaz.org
Pablo Aragón, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Miriam Redi +3
The Internet has become a fundamental resource for activism as it facilitates political mobilization at a global scale. Petition platforms are a clear example of how thousands of p…