3 papers
cs.SI2025
Extending the BEND Framework to Webgraphs
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kyle Herdrich +2
Attempts to manipulate webgraphs can have many downstream impacts, but analysts lack shared quantitative metrics to characterize actions taken to manipulate information environment…
cs.SI2025
Bridging Social Media and Search Engines: Dredge Words and the Detection of Unreliable Domains
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
Proactive content moderation requires platforms to rapidly and continuously evaluate the credibility of websites. Leveraging the direct and indirect paths users follow to unreliabl…
cs.SI2025
Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search
Ronald E. Robertson, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley +1
The content moderation systems used by social media sites are a topic of widespread interest and research, but less is known about the use of similar systems by web search engines.…