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Corrective or Backfire: Characterizing and Predicting User Response to Social Correction
Bing He, Yingchen Ma, Mustaque Ahamad +1
Online misinformation poses a global risk with harmful implications for society. Ordinary social media users are known to actively reply to misinformation posts with counter-misinf…
Reinforcement Learning-based Counter-Misinformation Response Generation: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Bing He, Mustaque Ahamad, Srijan Kumar
The spread of online misinformation threatens public health, democracy, and the broader society. While professional fact-checkers form the first line of defense by fact-checking po…
The Role of the Crowd in Countering Misinformation: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic
Nicholas Micallef, Bing He, Srijan Kumar +2
Fact checking by professionals is viewed as a vital defense in the fight against misinformation.While fact checking is important and its impact has been significant, fact checks co…
Abusing Phone Numbers and Cross-Application Features for Crafting Targeted Attacks
Srishti Gupta, Payas Gupta, Mustaque Ahamad +1
With the convergence of Internet and telephony, new applications (e.g., WhatsApp) have emerged as an important means of communication for billions of users. These applications are…