Location moved to IMU State Rooms East and West

Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions (just as Trump's State Department ends its remaining efforts to counter foreign disinformation) apnews.com/article/char...

Join my OSoMe colleagues and me for a panel on "AI, Social Media, and the New Information Landscape" co-organized by the Center of Excellence for Women & Technology and the Observatory on Social Media. 📅 Wed 24 Sep at 5pm, IMU Oak Room More info & registration: events.iu.edu/cewit/event/...

We're immensely grateful to @knightfoundation.org for continuing to support our OSoMe work even when research on information integrity is no longer aligned with the funding priorities of the US federal government: osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/b...

Don't forget, we kick off the 2025-2026 OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren today!

It’s not every day that UX researcher whistleblowers testify before the Senate. Yesterday, two former Meta researchers, Jason Sattizahn and Cayce Savage, shared their concerns with safety research for Meta VR products, and more broadly within Meta. So how does UX research move on from here? 🧵

AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year: @newsguard.bsky.social report www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...

Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

🚨 First OSoMe Awesome Speaker of the year! 🚨 📅 Sept 12 | 12pm ET 🎤 Patrick Warren (Clemson University) 📍 Zoom Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky 🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Deepfake videos impersonating real doctors push false medical advice and treatments. What could possibly go wrong? (This Is why we need both research and policy to fight AI abuse.) www.cbsnews.com/news/deepfak...

Antivax disinfo works, sadly. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

I've read many articles debunking the supposed link between vaccines and autism, but this might be the best one. @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social uses excellent graphics to clearly break down the deceptive tactics behind the myth, helping readers recognize flawed scientific reasoning when they see it.

From funding gaps to legal threats, the report shows what blocks public interest research - but also affirms our shared belief: that independent technology research is key to a just, transparent, and equitable digital future. Read and share! (2/2) independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...

Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)

Russia is churning out fake content posing as US news. Trump has killed the federal agencies tasked with cracking down on this junk, while his people amplify it. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

More and more papers are proposing to use LLMs to simulate human agents in agent-based models. I have strong reservations about attribution/causation/interpretability in this methodology, as I discuss in this article about one (excellent) such paper: 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐅 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 - 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝🚨 📅 New deadline: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟱! 🔍 Check the updated timeline and full application process: www.issnaf.org/2025-young-i... Help us spread the word with colleagues, young researchers, and peers who might be interested in applying

You can now donate to support OSoMe!! osome.iu.edu/about/donate

Celebrating Our 2025 PhD Graduates osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

Meta would rather shut down political advertising in EU than follow transparency laws. That is how much they do not want to be transparent. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

🎉 After 8 amazing years, Hoaxy is retiring! Its legacy lives on in OSoMeNet—our new, unified tool for social media research. Thank you for supporting Hoaxy! 🙌 osome.iu.edu/tools/osomen...

Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public theconversation.com/can-you-trus...

Are you an early-career Italian computer scientist working in the US or Canada? Apply for the ISSNAF 2025 MARIO GERLA AWARD! 🧪 (Spread the word, please!) www.issnaf.org/2025-young-i...

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Most Americans believe misinformation is a problem — federal research cuts will only make the problem worse theconversation.com/most-america...

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

The human response to the climate crisis is being obstructed and delayed by the production and circulation of misleading information about the nature of climate change and the available solutions. www.ipie.info/research/sr2...

New preprint: How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy 🧪 osf.io/preprints/os...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

🚨 CCCR has a new survey report out today! 🚨 "100 Days Under Trump: Public Reactions to Attacks on American Governance & Institutions" The report draws on our Apr/May YouGov panel survey of US adults, following our Oct 2024 survey w/ recontacts + a sample refresh. 1/ cccr.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

Congress is on the verge of passing a dangerous proposal: a 10-year ban on protecting families from AI harms. Help protect our kids and stop this nightmarish proposal by acting now: p2a.co/ZWfY1cP

When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do www.nature.com/articles/d41...

and a special thanks to @tanmoy-chak.bsky.social for leading this effort!

More co-authors here on bsky @iaugenstein.bsky.social @preslavnakov.bsky.social @igurevych.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social @fil.bsky.social @giovannizagni.bsky.social @dcorney.com @mbakker.bsky.social @computermacgyver.bsky.social @irenelarraz.bsky.social @gretawarren.bsky.social

Platforms like X are outsourcing fact-checking to users via tools like Community Notes. But what does this mean for truth online? We argue this isn’t just a technical shift — it’s an epistemological transformation. Who gets to define what's true when everyone is the fact-checker?

Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation apnews.com/article/cdc-...

3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship theconversation.com/3-ways-the-g...

🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫? new "Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media" with I Augenstein, M Bakker, T. Chakraborty, D. Corney, E Ferrara, I Gurevych, S Hale, E Hovy, H Ji, I Larraz, F Menczer, P Nakov, D Sahnan, G Warren, G Zagni

IPIE Report Shows Widespread Use of GenAI Incidents in 2024 National Elections Globally www.ipie.info/research/tp2...

Most major social media platforms are not doing enough to protect their most vulnerable users from online harassment, according to our new report with @consumerreports.org. A solution? Treat online abuse more like spam. Read the full report here: pen.org/report/treat...

🧪 New paper by @yang3kc.bsky.social on AI ratings of news sources: we find moderate correlations with human experts & a liberal bias in credibility ratings. It's also easy to manipulate all LLMs to provide politically biased ratings. Check out the amazing dashboard: yang3kc.github.io/llm_domain_c...

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Quoted in this great article about AI slop by @issielapowsky.bsky.social: what mix of real and AI-generated content will our information environment reach in the limit? Maybe AI Slop Is Killing the Internet, After All www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What a disaster (lots of good quotes) Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

What a wonderful day! Congratulations to the newly hooded doctors for their amazing work and brilliant future! 👏🎉🎓

A clear analysis of the manufactured controversy that wrongly equates fighting misinformation with censorship -- by @profsanderlinden.bsky.social How to Address Misinformation—Without Censorship time.com/7282640/how-...

Experting misinfo: Voice of America planning partnership with OAN: Kari Lake thehill.com/homenews/med...

Congratulations Dr. @baottruong.bsky.social !! Brava! 🙌 🎉👏