Conference Schedule

(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 CenturyBook Talk & Ask Me Anything

11:30 – 12:15 (45mins)

Sophia Smith Galer (Senior News Report, Vice World News)

12:15

Recorded Presentations & Live Q&A

Moderator: Eni Mustafaraj

12:15 – 13:30 (1hr 15mins)

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

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)

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

Talks Session: Governance and Safety

Moderator: Allison McDonald

14:00 – 15:00 (1hr)

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)