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Timothy Caulfield Verified account @CaulfieldTim · Oct 31, 2024

5 biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers science.org/content/articl…

1) Defining it
2) Everything is political
3) Harms hard to pin down
4) Companies own the data
5) The problem is global

I would add (related to #3), what's the direction of causation? Do people use misinformation to justify a position they already hold (e.g., part of a community that embraces) or did the misinformation lead to the belief? (Guess: complex & shifting combo).

by @kakape via @ScienceMagazine cc @Sander_vdLinden @STWorg @doritmi @DG_Rand @katestarbird @jonathanstea @ScienceUpFirst @MediaSmarts

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arxiv.org Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is extensively utilized for...

Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg · Dec 21, 2023

New preprint paper out with a great group of colleagues!
If you're using Perspective API, you might want to have a look at this. 😬

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Luca Maria Aiello (lajello.bsky.social) @lajello · Jun 21, 2024

Testing LLMs in Game Theory experiments reveals their moral biases as social agents -- useful to inform alignment. Llama2 playing Prisoner's Dilemma is more forgiving and non-retaliatory than humans, but only when the opponent defects rarely. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.13605

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Stefan Feuerriegel @stfeuerriegel · Jun 13, 2024

📣New @PNASNexus: Auditing Targeted Political Advertising on Social Media During the 2021 German Election

🔍We audit N=80,000 targeted #political #ads on #social #media (Meta) during the 2021 🇩🇪 election

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