The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia and even personal attacks on people who have the audacity to…
USC researchers are creating science-backed tools to improve social media content moderation policies. Flagging, demotion, and deletion of content; temporary or permanent suspension of users – these are some of…
Our team at USC proposed a novel way to model conspiracy theories on Twitter. In 68 CE, the Roman emperor Nero committed suicide. “Or did he?” asked the ancient conspiracy theorists…
Despite the spread of misinformation, my team at the Information Sciences Institute found that social networks play a key role in helping those in distress. When Russian forces began their…
In October 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, declaring that "the bird is freed" and that freedom of expression would be a priority on his platform. Although little is known about…
In just over a month after the change in Twitter leadership, there have been significant changes to the social media platform, in its new “Twitter 2.0” version. For researchers who…
Our paper “The Disinformation Dozen: An Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Disinformation Proliferation on Twitter” has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022. In this paper,…