Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States
seek to erode democratic social institutions. Looking to understand these phenomena …

The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during conflicts and crises. Social media allow emergency services to …

As more users turn to video-sharing platforms like YouTube as an information source, they
may consume misinformation despite their best efforts. In this work, we investigate ways that …

Best arm identification (or, pure exploration) in multi-armed bandits is a fundamental
problem in machine learning. In this paper we study the distributed version of this problem …

Misinformation disseminated via online social networks can cause social confusion and
result in inadequate responses during disasters and emergencies. To contribute to social …

Rumors are an enduring form of communication across socio-cultural landscapes globally.
Counter to their typical negative association, rumors play a nuanced role, hel** people …

For over a decade, the field of crisis informatics has observed novel, ad hoc uses of social
media among citizens and digital volunteers while noting barriers that impede social media …

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters
from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger's Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which …

In this paper, we present a dataset of over 1.4 M online news articles from 313 local US
news outlets published over 20 months (between April 4th, 2020 and December 31st, 2021) …

During recent crises like COVID-19, microblogging platforms have become popular
channels for affected people seeking assistance such as medical supplies and rescue …