Our colleagues Deinera Jechle and Dr. @afrenzel.bsky.social published a new paper on how phenomena often studied separately (e.g., cyberattacks, disinformation, propaganda) are frequently coordinated as part of information warfare (IW). 1/4

Key insight: Community goals shape socialization. Incels prioritize protecting their emotional "safe space." Stormfront prioritizes recruitment for political goals. Same suspicion of outsiders-different strategies. 6/7

“Who controls social media, controls reality.”

Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4

📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0

In addition to his published paper "Mitigating the Effects of Harmful Social Media Content through Attitude Inoculation," our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social has shared a video presentation of his work.

Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...

SAFE-TD considers four possible outcomes: Success, Failure, Content Distortion, and Implicit Hate Transformation, where hate hides behind polite language. 6/7

To address this, we created SAFE-TD, a multi-agent LLM framework that simulates the perspectives of the sender and multiple targets to judge whether a rewritten post is truly safe. 5/7

The web interface (see diagram 👇) visualizes agent conversations, lets users create new agents, control workflows, and configure a shared rulebook.

A Chrome plugin enables one-click inspection of online posts. 4/6

Are you in an echo chamber or stuck in your own information cocoon?

In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.

Read the thread for details.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904

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