There is a growing consensus that online platforms have a systematic influence on the democratic process. However, research beyond social media is limited. In this paper, we …
The emergence of Web 2.0 has drastically altered the way users perceive the Internet, by improving information sharing, collaboration and interoperability. Micro-blogging is one of …
Social media offer a big amount of information, to exploit in many fields of research. However, while methods for Natural Language Processing are being developed with good …
We present a simple NLP methodology for detecting COVID-19 misinformation videos on YouTube by leveraging user comments. We use transfer learning pre-trained models to …
R Epstein, RE Robertson, D Lazer… - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
A recent series of experiments demonstrated that introducing ranking bias to election-related search engine results can have a strong and undetectable influence on the preferences of …
A Elnagar, YS Khalifa, A Einea - Intelligent natural language processing …, 2018 - Springer
Arabic language suffers from the lack of available large datasets for machine learning and sentiment analysis applications. This work adds to the recently reported large dataset BRAD …
Social media systems rely on user feedback and rating mechanisms for personalization, ranking, and content filtering. However, when users evaluate content contributed by fellow …
R Ottoni, E Cunha, G Magno, P Bernardina… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
As of 2018, YouTube, the major online video sharing website, hosts multiple channels promoting right-wing content. In this paper, we observe issues related to hate, violence and …
It has been observed that different media outlets exert bias in the way they report the news, which seamlessly influences the way that readers' knowledge is built through filtering what …