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  • Article

    An AI Early Warning System to Monitor Online Disinformation, Stop Violence, and Protect Elections

    By: Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger, Michael Yankoski

    Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    The authors are developing an AI early warning system to monitor how manipulated content online—such as altered photos in memes—leads, in some cases, to violent conflict and societal instability.

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    Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes

    By: Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger, Michael Yankoski

    Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    From QAnon conspiracy theories to Russian government-sponsored election interference, social media disinformation campaigns are a part of online life, and identifying these threats is a challenge.

  • Article

    Automatic Discovery of Meme Genres with Diverse Appearances

    By: Joel Brogan, Daniel Moreira, Pascal Phoa, Walter Scheirer, William Theisen, Pamela Bilo Thomas, Tim Weninger

    Appeared In: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

    This paper introduces a scalable automated visual recognition pipeline for discovering meme genres of diverse appearance, work relevant to the study of political disinformation campaigns.

  • Article

    Analysis of Moral Judgment on Reddit

    By: Nicholas Botzer, Shawn Gu, Tim Weninger

    Appeared In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

    Moral outrage has become synonymous with social media in recent years. However, the preponderance of academic analysis on social media websites has focused on hate speech and misinformation. This article aims to help address that gap.

  • Article

    Subreddit Links Drive Community Creation and User Engagement on Reddit

    By: Rachel Krohn, Tim Weninger

    Appeared In: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

    Krohn and Weninger have undertaken a study on subreddit links on Reddit, with the goal of understanding their impact on both the referenced subreddit, and on the subreddit landscape as a whole.