132 citations · 269 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for
23 papers
Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields
Neil F. Johnson, Richard Sear, Lucia Illari
We show how the looming threat of bad actors using AI/GPT to generate harms across social media, can be addressed at scale by exploiting the intrinsic dynamics of the social media…
Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence
Minzhang Zheng, Richard Sear, Lucia Illari +2
Online hate is dynamic, adaptive -- and is now surging armed with AI/GPT tools. Its consequences include personal traumas, child sex abuse and violent mass attacks. Overcoming it w…
Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem
Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson
Why is distrust (e.g. of medical expertise) now flourishing online despite the surge in mitigation schemes being implemented? We analyze the changing discourse in the Facebook ecos…
Inductive detection of Influence Operations via Graph Learning
Nicholas A. Gabriel, David A. Broniatowski, Neil F. Johnson
Influence operations are large-scale efforts to manipulate public opinion. The rapid detection and disruption of these operations is critical for healthy public discourse. Emergent…
Shockwaves and turbulence across social media
Pedro D. Manrique, Frank Huo, Sara El Oud +3
Online communities featuring 'anti-X' hate and extremism, somehow thrive online despite moderator pressure. We present a first-principles theory of their dynamics, which accounts f…
Softening online extremes organically and at scale
Elvira Maria Restrepo, Martin Moreno, Lucia Illari +1
Calls are escalating for social media platforms to do more to mitigate extreme online communities whose views can lead to real-world harms, e.g., mis/disinformation and distrust th…