Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the “six degrees of
separation” which have previously characterized many social networks, and breaking down …

There has been much concern that social media, in particular YouTube, may facilitate
radicalisation and polarisation of online audiences. This systematic review aimed to …

Content on Twitter's home timeline is selected and ordered by personalization algorithms.
By consistently ranking certain content higher, these algorithms may amplify some …

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization
pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme …

Seismic advances in generative AI algorithms for imagery, text, and other data types has led
to the temptation to use synthetic data to train next-generation models. Repeating this …

Since the advent of the Internet, right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme
right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like …

In the debate about filter bubbles caused by algorithmic news recommendation, the
conceptualization of the two core concepts in this debate, diversity and algorithms, has …

As a social media platform, Instagram has a strong influence on youth culture, identity, and
perceptions of the world, with the application serving not only for youth to follow accounts …

This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large
language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories …

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right
users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support …