Today I am attending the event Meet the Future of AI: Support for the European Democracy Shield: policy, practice and partnerships in Brussels. Good to see my colleagues from @vera-ai.bsky.social and @euprompt.bsky.social
I will attend in person. Looking forward to meeting and chatting!
In October 2025, veraAI project members based at the University of Urbino (@giadam.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and @brupar.bsky.social) went to Brazil to present and share their research findings at a variety of events. Find out what they did in this post.
Hey #AoIR2025 participants, the upcoming @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School will be highly relevant to many of you:
This #AoIR2025 roundtable on data access is coming to an end. It started a very insightful discussion about the DSA, scraping and the future of accessing data for researchers. Thank all the speakers Josephine Lukito, Jessica Robinson, @snurb.info Richard Rogers @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social
No words #AoIR2025
This morning at #AoIR2025 in Niterói 🇧🇷 I presented a study that’s a joint effort with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and colleagues. We examined how deceptive info operations evolve through cycles of trial & adaptation testing which tactics stick.
Feels great to be back at @aoir.bsky.social!
Presenting our research w/ @brupar.bsky.social & @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social this afternoon @ #SISCC2025 (Uni of Cagliari) exploring how emotional reactions and narratives fuel polarization and harm democratic debate in Facebook pro-Bolsonaro communities. Looking forward to discuss this!
🚨Final #veraAI Event is approaching
2️⃣ Half-Day Online Sessions
1️⃣7️⃣ June: Tools + Social Science Research
2️⃣4️⃣ June: Research deep dive
Join us to explore AI vs disinformation from all angles!
ℹ️ and registration form @ veraai.eu/posts/two-ve...
#AoIR2025 is shaping up! Excited to coordinate a panel on platform polarization in Latin America with @brupar.bsky.social, present my work on LLMs + Brazilian social media and on deceptive information operations on Facebook with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team. Looking forward to it in Niterói! ☀️
📢 New from @euprompt.bsky.social project: In Romania's election re-run, we detected multiple pages simultaneously posting identical content that mixes AI-generated material (read AI slop) with political messaging. Read our full investigation: www.euractiv.ro/facts-not-fa...
The session will be available on-demand on the veraAI website and YouTube channel in a few days!
Even if I have not the opportunity to celebrate properly due to a conference today, buona festa della liberazione a tutt*!
Excited to present tomorrow @ #COMPTEXT25 this 4-step workflow by me and @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social for SM discourse analysis: extracting text features using the 5Ws+H framework, generating embeddings and clustering features with LLMs, detecting narratives through network and qualitative analysis.
We are democratizing coordinated sharing detection! 🚀 Join us to discover the graphical user interface that makes using CooRTweet even easier: tech.ebu.ch/events/2025/...
Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found.
#InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior
By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.
Hate is very lucrative. A new investigation shows Meta's recent policy changes have created a breeding ground for neo-Nazi content on Instagram, where accounts freely promote hate, antisemitic rhetoric, and Nazi symbols—all while making a profit.
globalextremism.org/post/neo-naz...
Ads with links to scammy websites about Bitcoin investments. They appear also in my fb feed using domains similar to real IT news outlets. I have been informally following this for a while, but I am unable to trace it back using the Meta Ads Library.
(1/4) We've dedicated countless hours to examining the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of the real-time APIs mandated by Article 40.12 (aka the CrowdTangle provision) of the Digital Services Act—so you don't have to.
Want to help build a safer, more transparent digital world?
Interested in tech, testing, network analysis & #disinfomation?
Then become a beta tester for the Coordinated Sharing Detection Service, powered by #CooRTweet, developed by @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team www.veraai.eu/posts/beta-t...
Building on a report released in 2022, our new 2024 study, “Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media,” examines factors that predict belief in pro-Kremlin disinfo narratives. socialmedialab.ca/2024/03/12/n...
Here's a summary of a conference organised by some of us. Topic: multimodal and cross-platform coordinated behavior detection. Held at the University of Sheffield on 29 October 2024, in conjunction with AoIR 2024.
www.veraai.eu/posts/coordi...
New article "Cracking Open the European Newsfeed" by @lrossi.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and me available on @journalqd.bsky.social. It longitudinally (2019-2022) analyzes the spread and impact of low-quality info on FB in Italy, France, and Germany. t.ly/w4dPJ
