Matt DeVerna. @OSoMe_IU Knight Fellow @IndianaUniv studying complex networks and systems. Computational social science, misinformation, AI for good, etc.
Oct 15 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Wow this NPR article on internal TikTok documents that were unintentionally leaked by the company is WILD. Major points in the thread 👇
npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s…
Basically, TikTok turned over internal documents that were redacted in a faulty way. By copying and pasting the text of the document, NPR discovered the text that was meant to be hidden. Here’s what we learned…
Jul 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Can we find and predict which accounts spread the most #misinformation on Twitter? What is Twitter doing about misinformation #superspreaders?
A 🧵 for results… 👇
We use various metrics to predict whether an account will be a superspreader in future months and then see which ones perform the best. Then we do a qualitative review of the worst superspreaders we find and report what we learned.