In early March, when the true scope of the coronavirus pandemic was still widely unknown to the public, misinformation was…
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Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning (VB Live) | VentureBeat
September 10, 2020
Misinformation around COVID-19 is driving human behavior across the world. Here in the information age, sensationalized clickbait headlines are crowding…
The real fake news about COVID-19 | Financial Times
by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
August 26, 2020
In February, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared that Covid-19 was not the only public health…
Job Opening | Research Engineer | Wikimedia Foundation
by Wikimedia Foundation
August 18, 2020
We’re hiring a Research Engineer strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source and open data, transparency, privacy,…
Job Opening | Research Scientist (Disinformation) | Wikimedia Foundation
by Wikimedia Foundation
August 18, 2020
We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source and open data, transparency, privacy,…
GIS researcher Levente Juhasz examines online maps and their inaccuracies during COVID-19 pandemic | Florida International University
by Adriana Harris
August 7, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, facts and figures are disseminated at rapid-fire speed. Whether from a trusted news outlet or a…
The Challenges and Opportunities for Social Media Research | The Cyber Policy Center
by Nathaniel Persily & Joshua Tucker
July 28, 2020
To some extent, it has been the best of times and the worst of times when it comes to social…
Content-based features predict social media influence operations | Science Advances
by Meysam Alizadeh, Jacob N. Shapiro, Cody Buntain & Joshua A. Tucker
July 24, 2020
We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity by assessing the performance of…
Call for Papers: Semantics for Online Misinformation Detection, Monitoring, and Prediction | SEMIFORM 2020
by SEMIFORM
July 21, 2020
Ubiquitous misinformation such as unreliable and/or harmful content is actively and successfully influencing public perception and stance towards many sensitive…
Call for papers: for special issue on tackling COVID-19 infodemic
by Social Network Analysis and Mining
July 20, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its global devastation, numerous accompanying challenges emerge. One important challenge is to efficiently and effectively…