5 papers
Seeking Help in the Digital Age: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Online Support Systems for Technology-Facilitated Abuse Victims
Nowshin Tabassum, Solomon G. Dandekar, Morgan PettyJohn +5
Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA), the use of digital technologies to stalk, harass, monitor or threaten others, has become a pervasive form of interpersonal harm. As victims turn…
The Power of Social Norms: How Initial Responses to Toxicity Shape Conversations on Twitter
Ana Aleksandric, Mohit Singhal, Anne Groggel +1
Online harassment and abusive language continue to be a growing concern on social media platforms. In this study, we explore the power of group dynamics to shape the toxicity of Tw…
FairDeFace: Evaluating the Fairness and Adversarial Robustness of Face Obfuscation Methods
Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Poojitha Thota, Mohit Singhal +3
The lack of a common platform and benchmark datasets for evaluating face obfuscation methods has been a challenge, with every method being tested using arbitrary experiments, datas…
Impact of Stricter Content Moderation on Parler's Users' Discourse
Nihal Kumarswamy, Mohit Singhal, Shirin Nilizadeh
Social media platforms employ various content moderation techniques to remove harmful, offensive, and hate speech content. The moderation level varies across platforms; even over t…
Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness
Mohit Singhal, Javier Pacheco, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi +4
Auditing is critical to ensuring the fairness and reliability of decision-making systems. However, auditing a black-box system for bias can be challenging due to the lack of transp…