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Political Persuasion and Endorsement in Large Language Models
Alessia Antelmi, Alessia Galdeman, Lucio La Cava +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed as proxies for human behavior in computational social science. However, their tendency to internalize biases from training da…
Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Online Behavior: Stability, Archetypes, and Influence
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi +4
Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online beh…
Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic
Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani +2
Propaganda is the expression of an opinion or an action by an individual or a group deliberately designed to influence the opinions or the actions of other individuals or groups wi…
Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey
Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar +7
The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audi…
Overview of the CLEF--2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed +16
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to…
The Spread of Propaganda by Coordinated Communities on Social Media
Kristina Hristakieva, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino +2
Large-scale manipulations on social media have two important characteristics: (i) use of propaganda to influence others, and (ii) adoption of coordinated behavior to spread it and…