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Don't forget, we kick off the 2025-2026 OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren tomorrow!
Register for the 12pm ET talk here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
🚨 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
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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.)
cbsnews.com/news/deepfake-…
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.
politico.com/news/2025/08/1…
The latest CITR report tells the story of how independent tech research is being systematically undermined even as the need for it has never been greater:
independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-20…
🎉 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/osomenet/
Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data:
🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts
🔎Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts
🌎OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms
osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…
As Bluesky continues to mature, influential accounts are emerging, posing familiar risks of misinformation, abuse and toxicity on platform. Understanding these dynamics can help inform effective governance and moderation strategies moving forward.
Our analysis reveals that Bluesky rapidly developed a dense, highly clustered network structure. This "friend-of-a-friend" connectivity, characterized by strong hubs, enables swift and viral information diffusion, similar to established platforms such as Twitter/X and Weibo.
Despite initial bursts and declines in total and average activity, Bluesky achieved a stable level of daily engagement, with around 15% active users after the US Elections, matching inactivity rates on X/Twitter (~85% lurkers).
Bluesky's growth was driven by key events: the public access launch, Brazil's ban on X, X's block policy change, and the US elections. Each event triggered significant user migrations and formed distinct communities.
New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media
Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo.
nature.com/articles/s4426…
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Small-time pro filmmaker since the late 80s.
A lifetime of being in the political minority.
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Resist autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
6K Followers 522 FollowingResearch center at Indiana Univ studying the spread of misinformation. Tweets by OSoMe Team, @[email protected], @fil.bsky.social, @[email protected]
599 Followers 1K FollowingInformatics PhD from Indiana University working with the Observatory on Social Media. Incoming postdoc (Sep. 2025) at the Stanford Social Media Lab.
4K Followers 4K FollowingAsst. Prof. at @SabanciU & PI of the @varollab
Previously @NUnetsi & @IndianaUniv & @MSFTResearch
Developed @Botometer
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366 Followers 210 FollowingFHI is a 501c3 open-source nonprofit fighting for a human internet: One protected voice per human.
Created the humanID login with help of Harvard & Mozilla.
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Past: @meetthepress, @washingtonweek, @JohnCarrollU.
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