The one-plot summary of what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

Check out the full program: 👉 www.code-project.it/besafe/
See you there! @akacaycepollard.bsky.social @smelons.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @cref-enrico-fermi.bsky.social
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Our Summer school "Narratives of Disruption and Continuity in Science, Technology and Society" begins at the @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social 🎉 First keynote speaker is @frapierri.bsky.social from Milan, about the regulation of online platforms in the age of misinformation!

Great work, congrats!

Did you look at whether underserved languages might be disproportionately relying on machine-assisted moderation (not sure if this information is available though)?

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages?

Our new WP shows the answer is no:

-Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators
-Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs

osf.io/amfws

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨

Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics.

We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities.

🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

FOMO for #ic2s2 is hitting hard---especially for Francesco, who is bravely pretending he’s totally fine without me.

Go check out our poster on early linguistic fingerprints of conspiracy theorists on Reddit (w. @gdfm.bsky.social )!

Full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05086

🚨Job Alert
W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com

PhD position out at University of Amsterdam

We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics

Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment!

Please share!

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Submission application deadline next week!

FINALLY 😌

The Delegated Act is here.

The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA

#dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

Just a quick update: 🚀 we’re pleased to announce that @chpoletto.bsky.social has joined as our final invited speaker!
@css-conference.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @akacaycepollard.bsky.social @fabmazza.bsky.social

LLMs might be nicer than humans but not nicer than my co-authors for sure <3

Damm we should have put that in the title!

The countdown to #ICWSM 2025 is on! 🎉

🌞 Expect warm summer days in Copenhagen! Tap water in Denmark is safe and delicious. Just bring a refillable bottle to stay hydrated! 💧

Don’t forget to check out the “Know Before You Go” guide for essential info:
📄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AI-assisted social media posting increases the volume of content people produce. However, that content is perceived as lower quality than purely human-generated posts. A dangerous spiral that may flood social media with low-quality content. Results from a controlled study: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025:

Silvia Merisio, Policy officer in the DSA team of the European Commission
“From Regulation to Research: The DSA’s Impact on Social Data Science” + Panel Discussion

📅 June 24
🕑 9 AM
📍CSS 35.01.05

Only a few days left to submit your abstract to the BeSafe Satellite Workshop @ccs2005.bsky.social. Details & submission: www.code-project.it/besafe/
Participate and feel free to spread the word.
For any questions email: [email protected].
@sarawalk.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social

📢 Only a few days left!
The deadline to submit your abstract to the BeSafe Satellite Workshop @css-conference.bsky.social is Sunday, June 15.

Don’t miss the chance to be part of our workshop!
👉 Details & submission: www.code-project.it/besafe/

🚨 We're thrilled to announce the first invited speaker of the satellite workshop BeSAFE: Eugenio Valdano!
Don't miss the chance to join us – abstract submissions close this Friday, May 30! Visit: www.code-project.it/besafe/
‪@cref-enrico-fermi.bsky.social‬ @css-conference.bsky.social

This is a poor argument against LLM simulations. It suggests that LLM-based behavioral models should capture nuances that no model ever has (do agent-based models go to the toilet?). Ofc, ABM is meant to be interpretable, but social science also needs predictive power (where LLM simulations excel)

TL;DR
We use open LLMs to study online conspiracy theories on TikTok leveraging videos' transcripts, and estimate a lower bound prevalence (0.1%) of such content on the platform looking at over 1 M random sample of US videos collected through the Research API.

Our paper "Conspiracy theories and where to find them on TikTok" has been accepted at the Main conference of @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025!

Great work led by @fracorso.bsky.social supervised by @gdfm.bsky.social and yours truly.

For more details check the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.12545