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Generative AI may backfire for counterspeech
Dominik Bär, Abdurahman Maarouf, Stefan Feuerriegel
Online hate speech poses a serious threat to individual well-being and societal cohesion. A promising solution to curb online hate speech is counterspeech. Counterspeech is aimed a…
Comparing the willingness to share for human-generated vs. AI-generated fake news
Amirsiavosh Bashardoust, Stefan Feuerriegel, Yash Raj Shrestha
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) presents large risks for society when it is used to create fake news. A crucial factor for fake news to go viral on social media is that use…
Analyzing User Characteristics of Hate Speech Spreaders on Social Media
Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, Stefan Feuerriegel
Hate speech on social media threatens the mental and physical well-being of individuals and contributes to real-world violence. Resharing is an important driver behind the spread o…
Systematic discrepancies in the delivery of political ads on Facebook and Instagram
Dominik Bär, Francesco Pierri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
Political advertising on social media has become a central element in election campaigns. However, granular information about political advertising on social media was previously u…
Analyzing the Strategy of Propaganda using Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Dominique Geissler, Stefan Feuerriegel
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by a large-scale, pro-Russian propaganda campaign on social media. However, the strategy behind the dissemination of propaganda…
New threats to society from free-speech social media platforms
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
In recent years, several free-speech social media platforms (so-called "alt-techs") have emerged, such as Parler, Gab, and Telegram. These platforms market themselves as alternativ…
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Dominique Geissler, Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs +1
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical evidenc…
The Virality of Hate Speech on Social Media
Abdurahman Maarouf, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
Online hate speech is responsible for violent attacks such as, e.g., the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, thereby posing a significant threat to vulnerable groups and society…
Analyzing Social Media Activities at Bellingcat
Dominik Bär, Fausto Calderon, Michael Lawlor +3
Open-source journalism emerged as a new phenomenon in the media ecosystem, which uses crowdsourcing to fact-check and generate investigative reports for world events using open sou…
Mechanisms of True and False Rumor Sharing in Social Media: Collective Intelligence or Herd Behavior?
Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
Social media platforms disseminate extensive volumes of online content, including true and, in particular, false rumors. Previous literature has studied the diffusion of offline ru…
Finding Qs: Profiling QAnon Supporters on Parler
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
The social media platform "Parler" has emerged into a prominent fringe community where a significant part of the user base are self-reported supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspi…
Online Emotions During the Storming of the U.S. Capitol: Evidence from the Social Media Network Parler
Johannes Jakubik, Michael Vössing, Dominik Bär +2
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 has led to the killing of 5 people and is widely regarded as an attack on democracy. The storming was largely coordinated throug…
Detecting False Rumors from Retweet Dynamics on Social Media
Christof Naumzik, Stefan Feuerriegel
False rumors are known to have detrimental effects on society. To prevent the spread of false rumors, social media platforms such as Twitter must detect them early. In this work, w…