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View article: How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy
How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy Open
Advances in AI portend a new era of sophisticated disinformation operations. While individual AI systems already create convincing—and at times misleading—information, an imminent development is the emergence of malicious AI swarms. These …
View article: How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy
How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy Open
Advances in AI portend a new era of sophisticated disinformation operations. While individual AI systems already create convincing—and at times misleading—information, an imminent development is the emergence of malicious AI swarms. These …
View article: How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy: The Fusion of Agentic AI and LLMs Marks a New Frontier in Information Warfare
How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy: The Fusion of Agentic AI and LLMs Marks a New Frontier in Information Warfare Open
Public opinion manipulation has entered a new phase, amplifying its roots in rhetoric and propaganda. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and autonomous agents now let influence campaigns reach unprecedented scale and precision. Resea…
“Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali Open
The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in M…
GraphMa: Towards new Models for Pipeline-Oriented Computation on Graphs Open
This paper presents GraphMa, a framework aimed at enhancing pipeline-oriented computation for graph processing. GraphMa integrates the principles of pipeline computation with graph processing methodologies to provide a structured approach …
iPuma: High-Performance Sequence Alignment on the Graphcore IPU Open
String alignment algorithms are an essential tool for understanding DNA and protein sequences. They demand substantial computation in real-world applications, and are thus a prime target for hardware acceleration. However, GPUs struggle to…
Social media in the Global South: A Network Dataset of the Malian Twittersphere Open
With the expansion of mobile communications infrastructure, social media usage in the Global South is surging. Compared to the Global North, populations of the Global South have had less prior experience with social media from stationary c…
Harmful Conspiracies in Temporal Interaction Networks: Understanding the Dynamics of Digital Wildfires through Phase Transitions Open
Shortly after the first COVID-19 cases became apparent in December 2020, rumors spread on social media suggesting a connection between the virus and the 5G radiation emanating from the recently deployed telecommunications network. In the c…
Social media in the Global South: A Network Dataset of the Malian Twittersphere Open
With the expansion of mobile communications infrastructure, social media usage in the Global South is surging. Compared to the Global North, populations of the Global South have had less prior experience with social media from stationary c…
COCO: an annotated Twitter dataset of COVID-19 conspiracy theories Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a surge of misinformation on social media which covered a wide range of different topics and contained many competing narratives, including conspiracy theories. To study such conspiracy theorie…
COVID-19 and 5G conspiracy theories: long term observation of a digital wildfire Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the lives of people worldwide, and consequently, it has dominated world news since March 2020. Thus, it is no surprise that it has also been the topic of a massive amount of misinformation, which…
The connectivity network underlying the German’s Twittersphere: a testbed for investigating information spreading phenomena Open
Online social networks are ubiquitous, have billions of users, and produce large amounts of data. While platforms like Reddit are based on a forum-like organization where users gather around topics, Facebook and Twitter implement a concept…
Don't Trust Your Eyes: Image Manipulation in the Age of DeepFakes Open
We review the phenomenon of deepfakes, a novel technology enabling inexpensive manipulation of video material through the use of artificial intelligence, in the context of today’s wider discussion on fake news. We discuss the foundation as…
WICO Graph: A Labeled Dataset of Twitter Subgraphs based on Conspiracy Theory and 5G-Corona Misinformation Tweets Open
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge of misinformation has flooded social media and other internet channels, and some of it has the potential to cause real-world harm. To counteract this misinformation, reliably identifying it is …
WICO Graph: A Labeled Dataset of Twitter Subgraphs based on Conspiracy Theory and 5G-Corona Misinformation Tweets Open
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge of misinformation has flooded social media and other internet channels, and some of it has the potential to cause real-world harm To counteract this misinformation, reliably identifying it is a…