Schedule

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Location: Seacliff C, Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Live stream: https://youtu.be/nzQWbTOdAAE

8:55 Opening


9:00 - 9:50 Keynote 1 (session chair: Paolo Papotti)

  • Looking Backward to See a Way Forward: How Credibility Research in Social Science Can Help in the Battle Against Misinformation

Miriam Metzger (UC Santa Barbara)


9:50 - 10:30 Session 1 (session chair: Chengkai Li)

  • Examining the Roles of Automation, Crowds and Professionals Towards Sustainable Fact-checking

Naeemul Hassan (University of Mississippi), Mohammad Yousuf (University of Oklahoma), Md Mahfuzul Haque (University of Mississippi), Javier A. Suarez Rivas (University of Mississippi), Md Khadimul Islam (The University of Mississippi)

  • Neural Check-Worthiness Ranking with Weak Supervision: Finding Sentences for Fact-Checking

Casper Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Christian Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Stephen Alstrup (University of Copenhagen), Jakob Grue Simonsen (University of Copenhagen), Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)


10:30 - 11:00 Morning coffee break


11:00 - 11:50 Keynote 2 (session chair: Laks V.S. Lakshmanan)

  • Misinformation is Half the Battle

Alex Leavitt (Facebook)


11:50 - 12:30 Session 2 (session chair: Paolo Papotti)

  • Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior

Luca Luceri (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, and University of Bern), Ashok Deb (University of Southern California), Adam Badawy (University of Southern California), Emilio Ferrara (University of Southern California)

  • A Study of Misinformation in WhatsApp groups with a focus on the Brazilian Presidential Elections

Caio Machado (University of Oxford), Beatriz Kira (University of São Paulo), Vidya Narayanan (University of Oxford), Bence Kollanyi (University of Oxford), Philip Howard (University of Oxford)


12:30 - 2:00 Lunch


2:00 - 3:20 Session 3 (session chair: Laks V.S. Lakshmanan)

  • A Topic-Agnostic Approach to Identify Fake News Pages

Sonia Castelo Quispe (New York University), Thais Almeida (Federal University of Amazonas), Anas Elghafari (New York University), Aécio Santos (New York University), Kien Pham (New York University), Eduardo Nakamura (Federal University of Amazonas), Juliana Freire (New York University)

  • Institutional Counter-disinformation Strategies in a Networked Democracy

Jonathan Stray (Columbia University)

  • Differences in Health News from Reliable and Unreliable Media

Sameer Dhoju (The University of Mississippi), Md Main Uddin Rony (The University of Mississippi), Muhammad Ashad Kabir (Charles Sturt University), Naeemul Hassan (The University of Mississippi)

  • Misinfosec: Applying Information Security Paradigms to Misinformation Campaigns

Christopher R. Walker (Marvelous AI, San Francisco, CA), Sara-Jayne Terp (SOFWERX, Tampa, FL), Pablo C. Breuer (U.S. Special Operations Command), Courtney Crooks (Georgia Tech Research Institute)


3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon coffee break


4:00 - 4:20 Session 4 (session chair: Chengkai Li)

  • A Linked Data Model for Facts, Statements and Beliefs

Ludivine Duroyon (France Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), François Goasdoué (France Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), Ioana Manolescu (France Inria and LIX (UMR 7161, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique))


4:20 - 5:20 Panel (session chair: Chengkai Li)

  • Roadmap for Building a Credible Web

Panelists: Bill Adair (Duke University), Srijan Kumar (Stanford University), Alex Leavitt (Facebook), Alexios Mantzarlis (TED), Miriam Metzger (UC Santa Barbara)

5:20 Wrap-up


5:30 - 6:30 Poster session with reception (session chair: Paolo Papotti)


Dinner (self-organized)