👇I am looking for a postdoc. Know someone with interest or experience in online mis(dis)information/influence operations, competent in social media analytics & wants to work in a non-western context, like the Indian subcontinent. You can ping me directly apply.interfolio.com/96175

This NudgeCred paper took only 4 yrs to be published. Still one of my favorite papers! The idea was hatched in 2017, after 3 yrs of rejections, it finally found its home at CSCW this year. Today seems to be the day to talk about paper rejections turning into acceptances #CHI2022

This has been on my mind a lot lately, and Amy @[email protected] Bruckman elucidated it better than I ever did

Do you ever get bored of seeing same recommendations from YouTube? By developing OtherTube, Sang Won Lee Tanu Mitra Carlos Bautista and I studied how swapping recommendations with strangers can help burst algorithmic filters #CHI2022 arxiv.org/abs/2201.11709 youtu.be/Br4ZEVG_tsk

Do you use YouTube for getting your news and election information? Please take this survey to participate in running a Chrome browser extension for 9 days. bit.ly/3ILgyVZ. Please RT and pass along to other folks you think would be interested to participate!

📢Training on Counterfactually Augmented Data (CAD) improves out-of-domain performance of NLP models. ‼️ this may come at the cost of false positive bias. We explore this in our(w/ Mattia Samory Claudia Wagner Isabelle Augenstein) short paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2205.04238…(to appear at #NAACL22) 1/

I am looking for PhD students for fall '23. If you are interested in the topic of content moderation or online harassment, apply to work with me at Rutgers School of Communication and Information.

Proud supervisor pic! Indira did an amazing job today! Congratulations Dr. Sen Indira Sen

Our 3 submissions to IC2S2 are accepted as talks/plenaries! (Topics: social polls, global news coverage, and scientific promotion.) Looking forward to the conference in Philly! Congrats Mattia Samory JungHwan Yang Kevin Yang Xi Chen Scott Hale David Jurgens is now on BlueSky only Ethan Zuckerman

First paper🔬 on social polls!!!🗳️ Over 100k polls gauged support for 2020 US presidential candidates on X, and gathered >20m votes. They favored Trump by >10% (on average). Many were used to reinforce voter fraud beliefs and were likely manipulated by bots and fake votes. 🧵1/5

#ICWSM24 best reviewers and best senior PCs are: 2/

🚨New Pub Alert 📢 I’m excited to share our newest systematic review! We analyzed the data quality of hateful communication datasets for automated detection, the targeted identities, linguistic diversity, and involved researchers. Check it out: doi.org/10.1177/089443…

Don't believe everything you see on social media. Informal political polls conducted on X during both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections were significantly skewed by questionable votes. 🔗 Details here: bit.ly/3VYVGTy Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

Our bias-corrected estimates of support for US presidential candidates based on X polls were more accurate than traditional polls! 🎊🎉 We estimated 52% for Trump vs 48% for Harris. So far there are 72,641,564 votes for Trump (51.7%) and 67,957,895 for Harris (48.3%)!

Looking forward to new, original datasets!

Delighted and thankful that our study "Election Polls on Social Media: Prevalence, Biases, and Voter Fraud Beliefs" (attached thread) received Best Paper Honorable Mention at @ICWSM'25! Congratulations Stephens_AI Vijayalakshmi V Mattia Samory Kevin Yang JungHwan Yang! 🙏🎊