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Soham De
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🎓 PhD student @ischool.uw.edu (he/him) 🤝 Interested in pluralistic alignment & social media algorithms Academic Website: https://sohamde.in/ | 📍Seattle, WA
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Soham De @sohamde.in · May 1
Great presentation!
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 24
More results and implementation details in our full paper, here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

If you're in Sydney and attending www2025.thewebconf.org come say hi, I'd love to chat!

I'll also be presenting this as a poster on Day 5, noon in the Parkside Ballroom @ ICC Sydney
Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking | Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 24
Beyond helpfulness, participants also rated the Supernotes more favorably than the best existing notes on quality, clarity, coverage, context, and argumentativeness.
Supernotes are also found to be superior on several other parameters, such as source quality, clarity, comprehensiveness, context and (lack of) argumentativeness
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 24
In a human-subjects evaluation, participants rated Supernotes significantly more helpful than the best existing human-written notes on Community Notes.
Supernotes are more helpful than the best existing notes
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 24
We propose "Supernotes" to improve existing Community Notes by

(a) summarizing relevant information across multiple human-written notes, and
(b) using LLMs to compose these notes in language that is more broadly appealing and helpful
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 24
I'll be in Sydney presenting ✨Supernotes✨ at the ACM WebConf 🚀 (WWW'25). Incase you missed it, here's a very short thread about it: 🧵

Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#www2025 #thewebconf2025
Supernotes generation pipeline
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 3
Congratulations, Sanjush!
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Apr 3
UW Campus, today!

#peakbloom #seattle #cherryblossoms
Cherry blossoms and clouds at the UW Quad Cherry blossoms A freshly bloomed cherry blossom
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Mar 27
Congratulations!!
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · Jan 27
This week’s newsletter brings together past, present and future of fact-checking social media:

✔️ Sorting out moderation vs fact-checking
✔️ Where social media fact-checking came from
✔️ What actually works and what else to consider
🕵🏼‍♀️✅ Fact-checking’s future: can social media handle the truth?
Who should decide what’s true online?
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Dec 5
Super cool & important work from @matthewdeverna.com!
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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · Dec 4
New paper in PNAS 🧪 Fact-checking information from large language models can decrease headline discernment

What are the unintended consequences of AI fact-checking? Even LLMs that accurately identify false headlines can actually cause harm.

Read all about our experiment:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Nov 25
Yes! I've been lurking here for about a year and it finally feels a little like Academic Twitter again!
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Nov 25
I've been eagerly waiting for this to come out -- and the results are so worth it! Very cool how impactful a 7-day intervention can be!!
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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Nov 25
New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization?

We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Nov 24
While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.

I blogged about it here:
Benefits of an open network
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Jaz @jazco.dev · Nov 13
90 days ago Bluesky had 6.18M users
30 days ago Bluesky had 10.85M users
Tomorrow Bluesky will have 15M users

This is absolutely wild, thanks for believing in us y'all
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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · Nov 13
[Please reshare]
I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd

More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/

cc @uwischool.bsky.social
UW campus, Drumheller Fountain and Rainier Vista.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · Feb 7
Welcome to Bluesky, everyone! We opened access yesterday, and we just crossed 4M people total on the network. 🎉

• 800k+ new users have signed up
• Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second
• 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours

We're so excited to have you here!
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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · Nov 17
I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. 

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Soham De @sohamde.in · Oct 16
Hello World!
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Sep 25
Pardon me as I test some features here :P
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Sep 25
I feel like a lab rat here, this is cool!
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Soham De @sohamde.in · Sep 25
I feel like a lab rat here, this is cool!
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