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21 papers
SciLander: Mapping the Scientific News Landscape
Maurício Gruppi, Panayiotis Smeros, Sibel Adalı +2
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the spread of misinformation on social media and the Web as a whole. The phenomenon dubbed `infodemic' has taken the challenges of information vera…
NELA-Local: A Dataset of U.S. Local News Articles for the Study of County-level News Ecosystems
Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Kenneth Joseph +3
In this paper, we present a dataset of over 1.4M online news articles from 313 local U.S. news outlets published over 20 months (between April 4th, 2020 and December 31st, 2021). T…
NELA-GT-2022: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles
Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı
In this paper, we present the fifth installment of the NELA-GT datasets, NELA-GT-2022. The dataset contains 1,778,361 articles from 361 outlets between January 1st, 2022 and Decemb…
NELA-GT-2020: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles
Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı
In this paper, we present an updated version of the NELA-GT-2019 dataset, entitled NELA-GT-2020. NELA-GT-2020 contains nearly 1.8M news articles from 519 sources collected between…
Fake it Till You Make it: Self-Supervised Semantic Shifts for Monolingual Word Embedding Tasks
Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adalı, Pin-Yu Chen
The use of language is subject to variation over time as well as across social groups and knowledge domains, leading to differences even in the monolingual scenario. Such variation…
Tell Me Who Your Friends Are: Using Content Sharing Behavior for News Source Veracity Detection
Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı
Stopping the malicious spread and production of false and misleading news has become a top priority for researchers. Due to this prevalence, many automated methods for detecting lo…
Do All Good Actors Look The Same? Exploring News Veracity Detection Across The U.S. and The U.K
Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adalı
A major concern with text-based news veracity detection methods is that they may not generalize across countries and cultures. In this short paper, we explicitly test news veracity…
NELA-GT-2019: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles
Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı
In this paper, we present an updated version of the NELA-GT-2018 dataset (Nørregaard, Horne, and Adalı 2019), entitled NELA-GT-2019. NELA-GT-2019 contains 1.12M news articles from…
Trustworthy Misinformation Mitigation with Soft Information Nudging
Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adalı
Research in combating misinformation reports many negative results: facts may not change minds, especially if they come from sources that are not trusted. Individuals can disregard…
Rating Reliability and Bias in News Articles: Does AI Assistance Help Everyone?
Benjamin D. Horne, Dorit Nevo, John O'Donovan +2
With the spread of false and misleading information in current news, many algorithmic tools have been introduced with the aim of assessing bias and reliability in written content.…
NELA-GT-2018: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles
Jeppe Norregaard, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
In this paper, we present a dataset of 713k articles collected between 02/2018-11/2018. These articles are collected directly from 194 news and media outlets including mainstream,…
Different Spirals of Sameness: A Study of Content Sharing in Mainstream and Alternative Media
Benjamin D. Horne, Jeppe Norregaard, Sibel Adali
In this paper, we analyze content sharing between news sources in the alternative and mainstream media using a dataset of 713K articles and 194 sources. We find that content sharin…
Models for Predicting Community-Specific Interest in News Articles
Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sibel Adali
In this work, we ask two questions: 1. Can we predict the type of community interested in a news article using only features from the article content? and 2. How well do these mode…
Is Uncertainty Always Bad?: Effect of Topic Competence on Uncertain Opinions
Jin-Hee Cho, Sibel Adalı
The proliferation of information disseminated by public/social media has made decision-making highly challenging due to the wide availability of noisy, uncertain, or unverified inf…
An Exploration of Unreliable News Classification in Brazil and The U.S
Mauricio Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
The propagation of unreliable information is on the rise in many places around the world. This expansion is facilitated by the rapid spread of information and anonymity granted by…
An Exploration of Verbatim Content Republishing by News Producers
Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
In today's news ecosystem, news sources emerge frequently and can vary widely in intent. This intent can range from benign to malicious, with many tactics being used to achieve the…
Sampling the News Producers: A Large News and Feature Data Set for the Study of the Complex Media Landscape
Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sara Khedr +1
The complexity and diversity of today's media landscape provides many challenges for researchers studying news producers. These producers use many different strategies to get their…
Identifying the social signals that drive online discussions: A case study of Reddit communities
Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali, Sujoy Sikdar
Increasingly people form opinions based on information they consume on online social media. As a result, it is crucial to understand what type of content attracts people's attentio…
This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News
Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
The problem of fake news has gained a lot of attention as it is claimed to have had a significant impact on 2016 US Presidential Elections. Fake news is not a new problem and its s…
The Impact of Crowds on News Engagement: A Reddit Case Study
Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
Today, users are reading the news through social platforms. These platforms are built to facilitate crowd engagement, but not necessarily disseminate useful news to inform the mass…
Mechanism Design for Multi-Type Housing Markets
Sibel Adali, Sujoy Sikdar, Lirong Xia
We study multi-type housing markets, where there are types of items, each agent is initially endowed one item of each type, and the goal is to design mechanisms without mo…