A pair of new studies show that verified accounts, not necessarily bots, might be driving the spread of misinformation on social media.Read More
The model achieves state-of-the-art performance when predicting sarcasm from a dataset of Twitter text and images.Read More
Researchers at the University of University of Southern California found evidence of bots spreading conspiracies ahead of the U.S. elections.Read More
A Pew Research Center study found that 10% of Twitter users generate the bulk of tweets, and 69% of those identify as Democrats.Read More
Twitter suffered cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a teenager to take over the accounts of several of the world’s most famous people.Read More
Blackbird.AI details tools that allowed QAnon to move from the fringes to the mainstream — crowdsourcing, social media, and gamification.Read More
Twitter’s saliency detection algorithm appears to be prioritizing the faces of white people over Black people when displaying faces in people’s timelines.Read More
The Incidents data set was made to encourage the development of AI for recognizing accidents and natural disasters from social media images.Read More
Ahead of the 2020 election, Pew Research found that a majority of American adults believe social media platforms censor political speech.Read More
A look at Kamala Harris history with tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Uber, and her influence on tech policy matters over the span of the past decade.Read More