Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity
Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity
2025
M. De-Arteaga, V. Jeanselme, A. Dubrawski, A. Chouldechova. Leveraging Expert Consistency to Improve Algorithmic Decision Support. Management Science.
Soumyajit Gupta, Venelin Kovatchev, Anubrata Das, Maria De-Arteaga, and Matthew Lease. Finding Pareto Trade-offs in Fair and Accurate Detection of Toxic Speech. Information Research, 30(iConf):123--141, 2025. [ DOI | video | preprint ]
Anshun Asher Zheng, Junyi Jessy Li, David Beaver. Strategic Discourse Assessment: The Crooked Path to Innocence. arXiv Technical Report 2506.01195.
Sebastian Joseph, Lily Chen, Barry Wei, Michael Mackert, Iain J. Marshall, Paul Pu Liang, Ramez Kouzy, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li. Decide less, communicate more: On the construct validity of end-to-end fact-checking in medicine. arXiv Technical Report 2506.20876.
A. Kolluri*, D. Murthy*, and K. Vinton, Quantifying the Spread of Racist Content on Fringe Social Media: A Case Study of Parler, Big Data & Society 12(2), 2025.
Houjiang Liu, Jacek Gwizdka, and Matthew Lease. Exploring Multidimensional Checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted Claim Prioritization for Human Fact-checkers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(CSCW2), 2025.
Jakob Schoeffer, Maria De-Arteaga, Jonathan Elmer. Perils of Label Indeterminacy: A Case Study on Prediction of Neurological Recovery After Cardiac Arrest. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2025.
Kellen Sharp, Rachel R. Ouellette, Rujula Singh Rajendra Singh, Elise E. DeVito, Neil Kamdar, Amanda de la Noval, Dhiraj Murthy, and Grace Kong. Generative artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to screen social media content. PeerJ Computer Science 11 (2025): e2710.
Liyan Tang, Grace Kim, Xinyu Zhao, Thom Lake, Wenxuan Ding, Fangcong Yin, Prasann Singhal, Manya Wadhwa, Zeyu Leo Liu, Zayne Sprague, Ramya Namuduri, Bodun Hu, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Puyuan Peng, and Greg Durrett. ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models. arXiv Technical Report 2505.13444
L. Zhao, R. Bhuvanagiri, B. Gonzalez, K. Sharp, and D. Murthy. A Dashboard Approach to Monitoring Mpox-Related Discourse and Misinformation on Social Media, arXiv preprint, 2025.
2024
Jifan Chen, Grace Kim, Aniruddh Sriram, Greg Durrett, and Eunsol Choi. Complex Claim Verification with Evidence Retrieved in the Wild. NAACL 2024.
Luca Deck, Jakob Schoeffer, Maria De-Arteaga, and Niklas Kühl. A Critical Survey on Fairness Benefits of Explainable AI. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2024.
Venkata S Govindarajan, Yuki Yu Liu, Kyle Mahowald, David Beaver, Junyi Jessy Li. Do they mean 'us'? Interpreting Referring Expressions in Intergroup Bias. EMNLP Findings, 2024.
Anisha Gunjal and Greg Durrett. Molecular Facts: Desiderata for Decontextualization in LLM Fact Verification. Findings of EMNLP 2024.
Sebastian Joseph, Lily Chen, Jan Trienes, Hannah Louisa Göke, Monika Coers, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace and Junyi Jessy Li. FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence. ACL 2024
Gauri Kambhatla, Ashwin Rajadesingan, and Matthew Lease. Promoting Constructive Deliberation: Reframing for Receptiveness. Findings of EMNLP 2024.
Yunyi Li, Maria De-Arteaga, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Mitigating Label Bias via Decoupled Confident Learning. AI & HCI Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
Yunyi Li, Maria De-Arteaga, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Label Bias: A Pervasive and Invisibilized Problem. Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
Houjiang Liu, Anubrata Das, Alexander Boltz, Didi Zhou, Daisy Pinaroc, Matthew Lease, and Min Kyung Lee. Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI. ACM CSCW 2024. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
Li Shi, Houjiang Liu, Yian Wong, Utkarsh Mujumdar, Dan Zhang, Jacek Gwizdka, and Matthew Lease. Argumentative Experience: Reducing Confirmation Bias on Controversial Issues through LLM-Generated Multi-Persona Debates. Technical Report arXiv:2412.04629, The University of Texas at Austin, December 5 2024. [ preprint | video ]
Josephine Lukito (2024) Digital Disinformation, Electoral Interference, and Systemic Distrust. In Arcos et al. (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Disinformation and National Security.
Josephine Lukito. Global Misinformation & Disinformation Special Issue Introduction. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 36, no. 3 (2024).
Josephine Lukito. “Understanding a Case of State-Sponsored Digital Disinformation.” In Porter, L. (Ed.) The Disinformers: Social Media, Disinformation, and Elections. Book Chapter.
Lukito, J., Greenfield, J., Yang, Y., Dahlke, R., Brown, M. A., Lewis, R., & Chen, B. (2024). Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing. Media and Communication, 12.
Terrence Neumann, Sooyong Lee, Maria De-Arteaga, Sina Fazelpour, and Matthew Lease. Diverse, but Divisive: LLMs Can Exaggerate Gender Differences in Opinion Related to Harms of Misinformation. In Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2024.
Terrence Neumann, Maria De-Arteaga, Sina Fazelpour, Matthew Lease, and Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Informational Justice in AI-Assisted Fact-Checking. Social Science Research Network (SSRN), 2024.
Joao VS Ozawa, Josephine Lukito, Felipe Bailez, and Luis GP Fakhouri. Brazilian Capitol attack: The interaction between Bolsonaro’s supporters’ content, WhatsApp, Twitter, and news media. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
Juan Diego Rodriguez, Katrin Erk, and Greg Durrett. X-PARADE: Cross-lingual textual entailment and information divergence across paragraphs. NAACL 2024.
Jakob Schoeffer, Maria De-Arteaga, Niklas Kuehl. Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2024. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
Smriti Singh, Cornelia Caragea, and Junyi Jessy Li. "Language Models (Mostly) Do Not Consider Emotion Triggers When Predicting Emotion." NAACL 2024.
Aniruddh Sriram, Fangyuan Xu, Eunsol Choi, and Greg Durrett. Contrastive Learning to Improve Retrieval for Real-world Fact Checking. FEVER workshop at EMNLP 2024
Yiheng Su, Junyi Jessy Li and Matthew Lease, Wrapper Boxes: Faithful Attribution of Model Predictions to Training Data, In EMNLP’24 BlackBox NLP Workshop.
Liyan Tang, Philippe Laban, and Greg Durrett. MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents. EMNLP 2024
Jan Trienes, Sebastian Joseph, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert, Kyle Lo, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace and Junyi Jessy Li. InfoLossQA: Characterizing and Recovering Information Loss in Text Simplification. ACL 2024
P. Venkatesh, Vinton, K., Murthy, D., Sharp, K., Kolluri, A. (2024), Entendre, a Social Bot Detection Tool for Niche, Fringe, and Extreme Social Media, arXiv preprint. Arxiv:2408.06900.
Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, and Ryan McGrady. Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention. Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2024): 1-14.
2023
Bin Chen, Josephine Lukito, and Gyo Hyun Koo. Comparing the# StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms: Differentiating Discourse on Facebook, Twitter, and Parler. Social Media+ Society 9, no. 3 (2023): 20563051231196879.
Myra Cheng, Maria De-Arteaga, Lester Mackey, Adam Kalai. Social Norm Bias: Residual Harms of Fairness-Aware Algorithms. Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, 2023.
Anubrata Das, Houjiang Liu, Venelin Kovatchev and Matthew Lease. The State of Human-centered NLP Technology for Fact-checking. Information Processing and Management (IPM), 2023 .
A Goodwin, K Joseff, MJ Riedl, J Lukito, S Woolley. Political Relational Influencers: The Mobilization of Social Media Influencers in the Political Arena. International Journal of Communication, Vol 17 (2023).
Soumyajit Gupta, Sooyong Lee, Maria De-Arteaga, and Matthew Lease. Same Same, But Different: Conditional Multi-Task Learning for Demographic-Specific Toxicity Detection. In Proceedings of the Web Conference, 2023.
Danula Hettiachchi, Indigo Holcombe-James, Stephanie Livingstone, Anjalee de Silva, Matthew Lease, Flora D. Salim, and Mark Sanderson. How Crowd Worker Factors Influence Subjective Annotations: A Study of Tagging Misogynistic Hate Speech in Tweets. In Proceedings of the 11th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), pages 38--50, 2023.
Kenneth Holstein, Maria De-Arteaga, Lakshmi Tumati, and Yanghuidi Cheng. Toward Supporting Perceptual Complementarity in Human-AI Collaboration via Reflection on Unobservables. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, (CSCW), 2023.
Ryo Kamoi, Tanya Goyal, and Greg Durrett. Shortcomings of Question Answering Based Factuality Frameworks for Error Localization. EACL 2023.
Ryo Kamoi, Tanya Goyal, Juan Diego Rodriguez, and Greg Durrett. WiCE: Real-world Entailment for Claims in Wikipedia. EMNLP 2023.
Yunyi Li, Maria De-Arteaga, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Mitigating Label Bias via Decoupled Confident Learning. AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.
Lukito, J., Lee, T., Martin, Z., Glover, K., Hu, A., & Cui, Z. (2023). Connective action in Myanmar: a mixed-method analysis of Spring Revolution. Information, Communication & Society, 1-19.
Lukito, J., Gursky, J., Foley, J., Yang, Y., Joseff, K., & Borah, P. (2023). “No reason [.] it should happen here”: Understanding Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak during a QAnon Event. Political Communication. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2023.2185332
Murthy, Dhiraj, Tejna Dasari, Kami Vinton, Fernanda Lago Arroyo, Catherine Li, and Patricia Clayton. Using Machine Learning, Social Media Images, and Journalists to Improve Disaster Resilience and Response. SSRN, 17 Jan 2023.
Neumann, Terrence, and Nicholas Wolczynski. Does AI-Assisted Fact-Checking Disproportionately Benefit Majority Groups Online?. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 480-490. 2023.
Norton, E., Thomas, T., Kolluri, A., Kim, T.H., Murthy, D., Temporal Analysis of Misinformation on Parler, arXiv preprint, 2023.
Ozawa, J. V. S., Lukito, J., Lee, T., Varma, A., & Alves, R. (2023). Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil: Catalyzing Effects and Resilience During Jair Bolsonaro's Government. International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612231182618
Rodarte, A., Kim, T., Lukito, J. (2023). Representing “The People”: What can social media images reveal about populist propaganda in Brazil? Social Media + Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231177962
Shi, William. Efficacy of Educational Misinformation Games. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09429 (2023). Supervised by Dhiraj Murthy and Min Kyung Lee.
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Katherine Atwell, Barea Sinno, Malihe Alikhani, David I. Beaver and Junyi Jessy Li, How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion, EACL 2023.
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, David I. Beaver, Kyle Mahowald and Junyi Jessy Li, Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias, ACL 2023.
Zimmerman, Tara, Kristina Shiroma, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Bo Xie, Chenyan Jia, Nitin Verma, and Min Kyung Lee. "Misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy." Vaccine41, no. 1 (2023): 136-144.
2022
Bautista, John Robert, Yan Zhang, and Jacek Gwizdka. Professional Identity and Perceived Crisis Severity as Antecedents of Healthcare Professionals’ Responses to Health Misinformation on Social Media. In International Conference on Information, pp. 273-291. Springer, Cham, 2022.
Jifan Chen, Aniruddh Sriram, Eunsol Choi, Greg Durrett. Generating Literal and Implied Subquestions to Fact-check Complex Claims. EMNLP 2022.
Bin Chen; Dhiraj Murthy; Torie (Hyunsik) Kim; Akaash Kolluri; Nikhil Kolluri; Cheongeui Won; Pranav Venkatesh; Josephine Lukito. Beyond Racism: Examining interaction between racist speech and misinformation on Parler. Proceedings of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Detroit, MI, August 2022.
Anubrata Das, Houjiang Liu, Venelin Kovatchev and Matthew Lease. The Need for Human-centered Design in Fact-checking Research. Information Processing & Management Conference, 2022.
Anubrata Das, Gupta, Chitrank, Venelin Kovatchev, Matthew Lease, and Junyi Jessy Li. ProtoTex: Explaining Model Decisions with Prototype Tensors. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022.
De-Arteaga, Maria, Stefan Feuerriegel, and Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Algorithmic fairness in business analytics: Directions for research and practice. Production and Operations Management 31, no. 10 (2022): 3749-3770.
Michael D. Ekstrand, Anubrata Das, Robin Burke, and Fernando Diaz (2022). Fairness in Recommender Systems. In Recommender Systems Handbook (3rd edition). Francesco Ricci, Lior Roach, and Bracha Shapira, eds. Springer-Verlag.
Sina Fazelpour, and Maria De-Arteaga. Diversity in Sociotechnical Machine Learning Systems. Big Data & Society, January 2022.
D Freelon, M Bossetta, C Wells, J Lukito, Y Xia, K Adams. Black trolls matter: Racial and ideological asymmetries in social media disinformation. Social Science Computer Review 40 (3), 560-578
Saadia Gabriel, Skyler Hallinan, Maarten Sap, Pemi Nguyen, Franziska Roesner, Eunsol Choi, and Yejin Choi. Misinfo Reaction Frames: Reasoning about Readers' Reactions to News Headlines. ACL 2022.
Understanding Effects of Algorithmic vs. Community Label on Perceived Accuracy of Hyper-partisan Misinformation
Chenyan Jia, Alexander Boltz, Angie Zhang, Anqing Chen, and Min Kyung Lee. ACM CSCW 2022.
Akaash Kolluri, Kami Vinton, Dhiraj Murthy. PoxVerifi: An Information Verification System to Combat Monkeypox Misinformation. arXiv.
Kolluri NL, Liu Y, Murthy D. COVID-19 Misinformation Detection: Machine-Learned Solutions to the Infodemic. JMIR Infodemiology. 08/08/2022:38756 (forthcoming/in press). Demo at http://www.coverifinews.com/
Taeyoung Lee and G. H. Koo. What Drives Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories? Examining the Role of Uncertainty, Negative Emotions, and Perceived Relevance and Threat. Health Communication. 2022.
Taeyoung Lee, Melissa Santillana, Ivan Lacasa-Mas, and Ivy Ashe. Antecedents and Consequences of Americans’ COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs: A Focus on Support for Trump, Populism, Institutional Trust, Media Consumption, and Mask-Wearing Attitudes. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 2022.
Yunyi Li, Maria De-Arteaga, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. More Data Can Lead Us Astray: Active Data Acquisition in the Presence of Label Bias. AAAI HCOMP 2022.
Josephine Lukito, Zhe Cui, An Hu, Taeyoung Lee, and Joao VS Ozawa. States vs. social movements: Protests and state repression in Asia. Media and Communication 10, no. 4 (2022): 5-17.
Josephine Lukito, Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Doroshenko, L., Su, M.-H., Kim, S. J., Xia, Y. & Wells, C. (In Press). Hacking the message amplification cycle: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency infiltrated American political journalism. International Journal of Press/Politics. Original paper presented at the 2018 AEJMC Conference. [Top Faculty Paper, Political Communication Interest Group] [Third Paper Professional Relevance Award, AEJMC]
Moravec, P.L., Kim, A., Dennis, A.R., and Minas, R.K. Do You Really Know If It’s True? How Asking Users to Rate Stories Affects Belief in Fake News on Social Media. Information Systems Research, 2022.
Dhiraj Murthy. Studying Endemic Racist Misinformation Needs to Come After Disinformation. Proceedings of the ICA Pre-Conference: What Comes After Disinformation Studies?, Paris, France, May, 2022.
Terrence Neumann, Maria De-Arteaga and Sina Fazelpour. Justice in Misinformation Detection Systems: An Analysis of Algorithms, Stakeholders, and Potential Harms. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2022.
Jakob Schoeffer, Maria De-Arteaga, Niklas Kuehl. On the Relationship Between Explanations, Fairness Perceptions, and Decisions. ACM CHI 2022 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), May 12-13, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Li Shi, Nilavra Bhattacharya, Anubrata Das, Matthew Lease, and Jacek Gwizdka. The Effects of Interactive AI Design on User Behavior: An Eye-tracking Study of Fact-checking COVID-19 Claims. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information, Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2022.
Barea Sinno, Bernardo Oviedo, Katherine Atwell, Malihe Alikhani, Junyi Jessy Li. Political Ideology and Polarization of Policy Positions: A Multi-dimensional Approach. NAACL 2022.
Tiberiu Sosea, Chau Pham, Alexander Tekle, Cornelia Caragea, Junyi Jessy Li. Emotion analysis and detection during COVID-19. Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2022.
Jiyoun Suk, Josephine Lukito, Min-Hsin Su, Sang Jung Kim, Chau Tong, Zhongkai Sun, and Prathusha Sarma. Do I sound American? How message attributes of IRA disinformation relate to Twitter engagement. Computational Communication Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Oct 2022, p. 590 - 628.
Nitin Verma, K.R. Fleischmann, L. Zhou, B. Xie, M.K. Lee, K. Rich, K. Shiroma, C. Jia, and T. Zimmerman. Trust in COVID-19 public health information. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2022.
2021
Trollfare: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign During Military Conflict in Ukraine
Doroshenko, Larissa, and Josephine Lukito. International Journal of Communication 15 (2021): 28.
Can NLI Models Verify QA Systems' Predictions?
Jifan Chen, Eunsol Choi, and Greg Durrett. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021.
CoVerifi: A COVID-19 News Verification System.
Nikhil L. Kolluri and Dhiraj Murthy, Online Social Networks and Media, Vol. 22: Article 100123: 1-13, 2021.
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Identity-Based Public Health Announcements in Increasing the Likelihood of Complying With COVID-19 Guidelines: Randomized Controlled Cross-sectional Web-Based Study.
Dennis, A.S., Moravec, P.L., Kim, A., and Dennis A.R. 2021. JMIR Public Health Surveillance. 7(4):e25762.
The effects of journalistic transparency on credibility assessments and engagement intentions.
Curry, A. L., & Stroud, N. J. Journalism 22, no. 4 (2021): 901-918.
COVID-19 Coverage By Cable and Broadcast Networks.
Budak, Ceren, Ashley Muddiman, Yujin Kim, Caroline C. Murray, and Natalie J. Stroud. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 952-960. 2021.
Evaluating Platform Accountability: Terrorist Content on YouTube.
Dhiraj Murthy. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 65 (6): 800-824, 2021.
Eurosodom: Specifics of Weaponized Sexuality and Gender-Based Narratives in Contemporary Russian and Pro-Russian Disinformation.
Cushman, Ellery G., and Kiril Avramov. ICONO 14, Revista de comunicación y tecnologías emergentes 19, no. 1 (2021): 123-154.
Building connective democracy: Interdisciplinary solutions to the problem of polarisation.
Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard, Anthony Dudo, Matthew Lease, Gina M. Masullo, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Scott R. Stroud, and Samuel C. Woolley. In Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord, editors, The Routledge companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, volume 1, chapter 53, pages 569--578. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367435769.
Reverse-engineering political protest: the Russian Internet Research Agency in the Heart of Texas. MJ Riedl, S Strover, T Cao, JR Choi, B Limov, M Schnell. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18 (2021).
Mind games: a temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the internet research agency on Facebook and Twitter. S Park, S Strover, J Choi, MK Schnell. New Media & Society, DOI: 10.1177/14614448211014355.
Misinformation during the COVID-19 outbreak in China: cultural, social and political entanglements.
Leng, Y. , Y. Zhai, S. Sun, Y. Wu, J. Selzer, S. Strover, H. Zhang, A. Chen, Y. Ding. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2332-7790 (2021).
COVID-19 Coverage By Cable and Broadcast Networks.
Budak, Ceren, Ashley Muddiman, Yujin Kim, Caroline C. Murray, and Natalie J. Stroud. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 952-960. 2021.
Asymmetric adjustment: Partisanship and correcting misinformation on Facebook.
Jennings, Jay, and Natalie Jomini Stroud. New Media & Society (2021).
The effects of information source and eHealth literacy on consumer health information credibility evaluation behavior. Chang, Y.-S., Zhang, Y., & Gwizdka, J. (2021). Computers in Human Behavior, 115, 106629.
Healthcare professionals’ acts of correcting health misinformation on social media.
Bautista, J. R., Zhang, Y., & Gwizdka, J. (2021). International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104375.
The evolution of computational propaganda: Theories, debates, and innovation of the Russian model.
D Tsyrenzhapova, SC Woolley. (2021). The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, 121-130.
Probabilistic social learning improves the public’s judgments of news veracity.
Guilbeault D, Woolley S, Becker J. (2021). PLOS ONE 16(3): e0247487.
Bots and Computational Propaganda: Automation for Communication and Control.
SC Woolley. (2021). Appears in Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform. ISBN 9781108858779, 2020. Cambridge University Press
Annotating and Modeling Fine-grained Factuality in Summarization.
Tanya Goyal and Greg Durrett. Proceedings of NAACL 2021.
Conducting Quantitative Research with Hard-To-Reach-Online Populations: Using Prime Panels to Rapidly Survey Older Adults During a Pandemic.
Verma, N., Shiroma, K., Rich, K., Fleischmann, K. R., Xie, B., & Lee, M. K. In Toeppe K., Yan H., Chu S. K. W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12646. Springer. (Presentation, 10 pages).
2020
A case for humans-in-the-loop: Decisions in the presence of erroneous algorithmic scores.
Maria De-Arteaga, Riccardo Fogliato, and Alexandra Chouldechova. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2020.
Conspiracy theories and fake news.
Avramov, Kiril, Vasily Gatov, and Ilya Yablokov. Routledge handbook of conspiracy theories (2020): 512-524.
Building Connective Democracy to Combat Polarization.
Stroud, Natalie J., and Gina M. Masullo. Democracy and Civic Life: What is the Long Game for Philanthropy, eds. Knight Foundation/Kettering Foundation,(Miami, FL: Knight Foundation, 2020) (2020): 157.
What’s in a label? The effect of news labels on perceived credibility.
Peacock, Cynthia, Gina M. Masullo, and Natalie Jomini Stroud. Journalism (2020): 1464884920971522.
Computational Propaganda and the News: Journalists’ Perceptions of the Effects of Digital Manipulation on Reporting.
KAC Persen, SC Woolley. (2020). Affective Politics of Digital Media, 245-260
Troubling Matters: Examining the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media During Mass Disruption Events.
Ahmer Arif, PhD Dissertation.
Evaluating Factuality in Generation with Dependency-level Entailment
Tanya Goyal and Greg Durrett. Findings of EMNLP 2020.
Appealing to Sense and Sensibility: System 1 and System 2 Interventions for Fake News on Social Media.
Moravec, P.L., A. Kim, and A.R. Dennis. 2020. Information Systems Research.
Global Health Crises Are Also Information Crises: A Call to Action
Xie, B., He, D., Mercer, T., Wang, Y., Wu, D., Fleischmann, K. R, Zhang, Y., Yoder, L. H., Stephens, K. S., Mackert, M., & Lee, M. K.. 2020. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 1-5.
2019
CobWeb: A Research Prototype for Exploring User Bias in Political Fact-Checking
Anubrata Das, Kunjan Mehta, and Matthew Lease. In ACM SIGIR Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR), 2019.
Weaponization of Metaphors in Russian Propaganda: Sexual Violence, as State Sovereignty Violation.
Kiril Avramov and Ellery Cushman. Small Wars Journal, 2019.
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. (2019). Understanding Online Trust and Information Behavior Using Demographics and Human Values. In: Taylor N., Christian-Lamb C., Martin M., Nardi B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11420. Springer, Cham.
Moravec, P.L., R.K. Minas, and A.R. Dennis. 2019. “Fake News on Social Media: People Believe What They Want to Believe When it Makes No Sense at All.” MIS Quarterly. 43:4. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2019/15505
Kim, A., P.L. Moravec, and A.R. Dennis. 2019. “Combating Fake News on Social Media with Source Ratings: The Effects of User and Expert Reputation Ratings.” Journal of Management Information Systems. 36:3. DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2019.1628921
Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations.
Starbird, K., Arif, A., & Wilson, T. In Proceedings of the 22th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '19).
WeBuildAI: Participatory Framework for Algorithmic Governance
Lee, M. K., Kusbit, D., Kahng, A., Kim, J. T., Yuan, X., Chan, A., Noothigattu, R., See, D., Lee, S., Psomas, C. A., & Procaccia, A. In Proceedings of the ACM : Human-Computer Interaction: Volume 3 Issue CSCW, November 2019. (CSCW 2019). Article 181, 35 pages.
The Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency tweets appears in U.S. news as vox populi
Lukito, J., Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Doroshenko, L., Su, M.-H., Kim, S. J., Xia, Y. & Wells, C. (2019). International Journal of Press/Politics.
Coordinating Disinformation: Understanding IRA activity on three U.S. social media platforms, 2015-2017.
Lukito, J. (2019). Political Communication.
Black trolls matter: An analysis of Russian sockpuppetry and digital blackface on Twitter.
Freelon, D., Bossetta M., Wells, C., Lukito, J., Xia, Y. &, Adams, K., (2020). Social Sci. Computer Review.
Disinformation, performed: Self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter.
Xia, Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Wells, C., Kim, S.-J., Tong, C. (2019). Information, Communication & Society.
Multi-hop Question Answering via Reasoning Chains
Jifan Chen, Shih-Ting Lin, and Greg Durrett. arXiv 2019.
Clickbait and Emotional Language in Fake News
Qiwei Li. Bachelor's thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, 2019.
2018
SC Woolley, PN Howard. (2018). Computational propaganda: Political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media. Oxford University Press
Acker, Amelia. (2018). Data Craft: The Manipulation of Social Media Metadata. Data& Society Research Institute, pp. 1-26.
Arif, A., Stewart, L.G., & Starbird, K. Acting the Part: Examining Information Operations Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '18).
Starbird, K., Arif, A., Wilson, T., Koevering, V.K., Yefimova, K., & Scarnecchia, D. Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains. In Proceedings of the 11th AAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '18).
Stewart, L.G., Arif, A., Nied, A.C., Spiro, S.E., & Starbird, K. Drawing the Lines of Contention: Networked Frame Contests Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '18).
Verma, N., Fleischman, K. R., & Koltai, K. (2018). Demographic Factors and Trust in Different News Sources. In Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, Canada
Believe it or not: Designing a Human-AI Partnership for Mixed-Initiative Fact-Checking
An Thanh Nguyen, Aditya Kharosekar, Aditya Kharosekar, Saumyaa Krishnan, Siddhesh Krishnan, Elizabeth Tate, Byron C. Wallace, and Matthew Lease. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST) 2018
Fact Checking and Information Retrieval
Matthew Lease. 1st Biannual Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES) 2018
An Interpretable Joint Graphical Model for Fact-Checking from Crowds
Nguyen, An T., Aditya Kharosekar, Matthew Lease and Byron C. Wallace. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2018
2017
Arif, A., Robinson, J. J., Stanek, S. A., Fichet, E., Townsend, P., Worku, Z., & Starbird, K. A Closer Look at the Self-Correcting Crowd: Examining Corrections in Online Rumors. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17).
Stroud, Natalie Jomini, Ashley Muddiman, and Joshua M. Scacco. "Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections." New media & society 19, no. 11 (2017): 1727-1743.
Koltai, K. & Fleischmann, K. R. (2017). Questioning Science with Science: The Evolution of the Vaccine Safety Movement. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Washington, DC.
Verman, N., Fleischman, K. R., & Koltai, K. (2017). Humans Values and Trust in Scientific Journals, Mainstream News, and Fake News. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Washington, DC.
2016
Arif, A., Shanahan, K., Chou, F.J., Dosouto, Y., Starbird, K., & Spiro, E. How Information Snowballs: Exploring the Role of Exposure in Online Rumor Propagation. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '16).