L Illari, NJ Restrepo, NF Johnson - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Why does online distrust (eg, of medical expertise) continue to grow despite numerous mitigation efforts? We analyzed changing discourse within a Facebook ecosystem of …
M Zheng, RF Sear, L Illari, NJ Restrepo, NF Johnson - npj Complexity, 2024 - nature.com
Online hate is dynamic, adaptive—and may soon surge with new AI/GPT tools. Establishing how hate operates at scale is key to overcoming it. We provide insights that challenge …
Implications Understanding the flow of misinformation between different kinds of media is a major research challenge, and the nature of that flow has clear implications for public policy …
NF Johnson, R Sear, L Illari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00879, 2023 - arxiv.org
We show how the looming threat of bad actors using AI/GPT to generate harms across social media, can be addressed at scale by exploiting the intrinsic dynamics of the social media …
R Sear, NF Johnson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08258, 2023 - arxiv.org
Analyzing a unique real-time dataset from across 26 social media platforms, we show why the hate-extremism ecosystem now has unprecedented reach and recruitment paths online; …
2023 was the year the world woke up to generative AI, and 2024 is the year policymakers are responding more firmly. Importantly, this policy momentum is taking place alongside real …
Research on the causes for vaccine resistance among Nigerian Muslims reveals what the philosopher Žižek terms a “heaven in disorder:” lack of trust in public institutions, conspiracy …
Research on the causes for vaccine resistance among Nigerian Muslims reveals what the philosopher Žižek terms a “heaven in disorder:” lack of trust in public institutions, conspiracy …
Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. As an intersection between communication …