(All Times shown below are in EST)
October 12th
(Online Pre-Conference Events)October 13th
October 14th
09:00
Opening Remarks
09:00 – 09:15 (15mins)
09:15
Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
09:15 – 10:00 (45 mins)
Rob Hawkins (Founder of Reveddit.com)
10:00
Tracking Exposed: a tool for TikTok algorithmic audits and shadow-ban/shadow-promotion detection
10:00 – 11:30 (1hr 30mins)
Salvatore Romano (Head of Research, Tracking Exposed)
11:30
Losing It: Sex in the 21st Century – Book Talk & Ask Me Anything
11:30 – 12:15 (45mins)
Sophia Smith Galer (Senior News Report, Vice World News)
12:15
2020 U.S. Internet Election Memes: Political Propaganda With More Than a Creative Information Disorder Twist
Ann Jabro, Stephanie McVicker
Building trust in online spaces to enhance young people’s health and wellbeing
Louise Holly
Information Behavior of Fact-Checkers as a Basis for Designing Human-Centered AI Tools for Automated Fact-Checking
Andrea Hrckova
Increasing the credibility of vaccine-related information on Wikipedia through collaboration
Netha Hussain
Real-Time Detection of Ephemeral Bot Attacks: The Case of Fake Trend Bots on Twitter Turkey
Tuğrulcan Elmas
Labelling a Catastrophe: Digital Databases, Evidence, and Accountability in Syria
Amre Metwally
13:15
Break
13:45 – 14:00 (45mins)
14:00
Tracking Propaganda Landscapes Across Social Media with SimPPL
14:00 – 14:45 (45mins)
Swapneel Mehta (NYU Data Science)
14:45
Break
14:45 – 15:00 (15mins)
15:00
Case Study Presentation: The neglected challenges of gender-affirming care misinformation and its intersection with transphobia and health inequalities
15:00 – 16:00 (1hr)
led by Jenna Sherman (Digital Health Lab Program Manager, Meedan)
16:00
Break
16:00 – 16:15 (15mins)
16:15
WikiCredibility Grants Initiative 2022 – Call for Proposals & Live Q&A
16:15 – 16:45 (30mins)
Led by Ariel Ceterone (Hacks/Hackers & Wikimedia DC Chapter)
16:45
Closing Remarks
16:45 – 17:00 (15mins)
09:00
WORKSHOP: Publishing research on global misinformation and disinformation
Pre-registration required
09:00 – 12:00 (3hrs)
Led by Josephine (Jo) Lukito (UT Austin, School of Journalism and Media)
12:00
Check-in
12:00 – 13:00 (1hr)
(George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, United States)
13:00
Opening Remarks
13:00 – 13:15 (15mins)
13:15
Keynote: #Hashtag Activism Networks of Race and Gender Justice
13:15 – 14:30 (1hr 15mins)
Sarah J. Jackson (University of Pennsylvania), Moya Bailey (Northwestern University), and Brooke Foucault Welles (Northeastern University)
14:30
Break
14:30 – 14:45 (15mins)
14:45
Talks Session: Online Media, Social Media, and Disinformation
Moderator: Gianluca Stringhini
14:45 – 15:45 (1hr)
The Audience Initiative: Assessing what drives trust and public
Maha Taki, Sonia Whitehead and Alasdair Stuart
The role of online attention in the supply of disinformation in Wikipedia
Anis Elebiary and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media
Matthew DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden and Filippo Menczer
15:45
Break
15:45 – 16:15 (30mins)
16:15
Lightning Talks: Online Media, Social Media, and Disinformation
Moderators: Gianluca Stringhini & Nevin Thompson
16:15 – 17:00 (45mins)
Applying ‘inoculation theory’ to mass media to build resilience to mis- and disinformation at scale
Yvonne MacPherson and Alasdair Stuart
Trust-by-Proxy: Building Institutional Confidence Through the Use of Blockchain and Social Media Influencers
Tomás Guarna and Eric Gordon
If Fact-Checking Were Easy, Would People Fact-Check?
Piers Howe, Bradley Walker, Andrew Perfors, Nicolas Fay and Yoshihisa Kashima
Developing disinformation detection models in low-resource contexts: Czech news article dataset for source-level credibility
Matyáš Boháček
17:00
Fireside Chat with Tomer Poran (VP of Solution Strategy, ActiveFence)
17:00 – 18:00 (1hr)
18:00
Reception
18:00 – 19:30 (1hr 30mins)
09:00
Check-in
09:00 – 09:30 (30mins)
09:30
Talks Session: Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
Moderator: Michelle Amazeen
09:30 – 10:45 (1hr 15mins)
vera.ai – Verification assisted by Artificial Intelligence
Kalina Bontcheva, Symeon Papadopoulos et al.
Crowdsourced Fact-Checking: How is BirdWatch Doing?
Mohammed Saeed, Gianluca Demartini and Paolo Papotti
Fact-checking multidimensional statistic claims in French
Oana Balalau, Simon Ebel, Théo Galizzi, Ioana Manolescu, Quentin Massonnat, Antoine Deiana, Emilie Gautreau, Antoine Krempf, Thomas Pontillon, Gérald Roux and Joanna Yakin
10:45
Break
10:45 – 11:00 (15mins)
11:00
PANEL: Broadening the Global Scope of Mis- and Disinformation Studies
11:00 – 12:15 (1hr 15mins)
Jo Lukito (UT Austin), Kiran Garimella (Rutgers), Saiph Savage (Northeastern)
12:15
Lunch & Networking Session
12:15 – 14:00 (1hr 45mins)
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13:00
SPONSOR SESSION: Industry Perspectives on Disinformation Research
Room 301
13:00 – 14:00 (1hr)
Session led by Rachael Levy (ActiveFence)
To register for this session, send an email to admin@truthandtrustonline.
14:00
Is Personalised Content Moderation a Good Idea?
Bertie Vidgen and Paul Röttger
The Data Access and Transparency (DATA) Index: Evaluating Transparency in Online Social Platforms
Shayne Longpre, Cameron Hickey, Manoel Ribeiro and Deb Roy
Public reasoning towards truth and community trust: regulating online deliberative spaces for participatory AI and data governance
Willow Wong
15:00
Break
15:00 – 15:15 (15mins)
15:15
Meet & Greet: Non-Traditional Pathways for Graduate Students
15:15 – 16:00 (45 mins)
16:00
Break
16:00 – 16:15 (15mins)
16:15
PANEL: Disinformation and Online Abuse Targeted at Communities of Color
16:15 – 17:45 (1hr 30mins)
Led by Dhanaraj Thakur (Center for Democracy and Technology)
Panellists: Maria Rodriguez (University of Buffalo), Rachel Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kristina Wilfore (She-presisted.org), Jonathan Ong (UMass Amherst), Saiph Savage (Northeastern University)