Program: room 307
0900 - 0910 Opening remarks
0910 - 0940 The Need for Intentions Behind Disinformation: Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College; invited)
0940 - 1000 Networked Restless Bandits with Positive Externalities: Christine Herlihy, Pranav Goel, and John Dickerson
1000 - 1030 Break
1030 - 1100 TBA: Ceren Budak (University of Michigan; invited)
1100 - 1140 Disrupting Disinformation: Hany Farid (UC Berkeley; keynote)
1140 - 1210 1-on-1 discussion on disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war:
with Andrii Shapovalov (Acting Head, Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) and Ludmilla Huntsman
1210 - 1300 Lunch break
1300 - 1330 Defense against Disinformation on Social Media and Its Challenges: Huan Liu (Arizona State University; invited)
1330 - 1400 Proactively Detecting Fake Reviews: V. S. Subrahmanian (Northwestern University; invited)
1400 - 1420 Multilingual Disinformation Detection for Digital Advertising: Žofia Trsťanová, Nadir El Manouzi, Maryline Chen, Andre Luiz Verucci da Cunha, and Sergei Ivanov [slides] [paper]
1420 - 1500 Panel discussion on progress, problems, and prospects for countering disinformation using ML:
with Hany Farid (UC Berkeley), Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College), Rand Waltzman (RAND), and Anatolii Marushchak (International Information Academy; National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine); moderated by George Cybenko (Dartmouth College)
1500 - 1530 Break
1530 - 1600 Learning News Outlet Veracity using Relationship Graphs: Benjamin Horne (University of Tennessee-Knoxville; invited)
1600 - 1630 Early Detection of Fake News on Social Media through Propagation Path Classification: Yang Liu (Indiana University-Kokomo; invited)
1630 - 1650 Privacy, Security, and Obfuscation in Reporting Technologies: Benjamin Laufer and Niko Grupen [paper]
1650 - 1720 TBA: Evanna Hu (International Republican Institute; invited)
1720 - 1750 TBA: JD Maddox (Global Engagement Center, US Department of State; invited)
1750 - 1800 Closing remarks