Our colleagues Deinera Jechle and Dr. @afrenzel.bsky.social published a new paper on how phenomena often studied separately (e.g., cyberattacks, disinformation, propaganda) are frequently coordinated as part of information warfare (IW). 1/4

How do extremist online communities decide who gets in? Our colleagues @cvdavid.bsky.social and @risius.bsky.social researched gatekeeping practices in extremist forums. Christopher presented their findings at #ACIS2025 in Australia 🧵 1/7

“Who controls social media, controls reality.” Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4 📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0

In addition to his published paper "Mitigating the Effects of Harmful Social Media Content through Attitude Inoculation," our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social has shared a video presentation of his work. Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...

Our colleagues Christopher David and @risius.bsky.social have published an insight on how conflicting views on the role of women are contributing to ideological fractures within the „murder capital of the internet“, Stormfront. Check it out on @gnetresearch.bsky.social

Detoxifying hate in social media posts sounds promising, but is the harm really gone? Our colleague @risius.bsky.social co-authored a paper on evaluating detoxification with an LLM-based agentic framework. 1/7 aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcont...

Do multiple perspectives improve hate speech detection? Presented at #ACMMM25 by our colleague @riekers.bsky.social, our new framework "MAXplain" introduces a multi-agent approach to multimodal hate speech detection. 1/6 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

What if we could counter authoritarian and anti-democratic attitudes before they take root? Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets. aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_... 1/6

Are you in an echo chamber or stuck in your own information cocoon? In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information. Read the thread for details. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904 1/6

Hello Bluesky! We are a research collaboratory at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany. 1/3