Reminder that the Research Showcase is happening in 30 minutes. On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 1:48 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October > 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have two timely presentations from > Fabrício Benevenuto and Francesca Spezzano about disinformation and how to > counter it. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You > can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > This month's presentations: > > Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation > Campaigns > > By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal > de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil > > The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the > 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to > mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections > Without Fake <http://www.eleicoes-sem-fake.dcc.ufmg.br/> and developed a > few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation > campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor > public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our > systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative > journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with > editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies. > > > Protecting Wikipedia from Disinformation: Detecting Malicious Editors and > Pages to Protect > > By Francesca Spezzano, Computer Science Department, Boise State University > > Wikipedia is based on the idea that anyone can make edits in order to > create reliable and crowd-sourced content. Yet with the cover of internet > anonymity, some users make changes to the online encyclopedia that do not > align with Wikipedia’s intended uses. In this talk, we present different > forms of disinformation on Wikipedia including vandalism and spam and > introduce to the mechanism that Wikipedia implements to protects its > integrity such as blocking malicious editors and page protection. Next, we > provide an overview of effective algorithms based on the user editing > behavior we have developed to detect malicious editors and pages to protect > across multiple languages. > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October >> 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. >> >> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU >> >> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. >> You can also watch our past Research Showcases here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase >> >> This month's presentations: >> >> Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation >> Campaigns >> >> By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal >> de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil >> >> The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the >> 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to >> mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections >> Without Fake <http://www.eleicoes-sem-fake.dcc.ufmg.br/> and developed a >> few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation >> campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor >> public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our >> systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative >> journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with >> editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies. >> >> More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come >> >> >> -- >> Janna Layton (she, her) >> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > > > -- > Janna Layton (she, her) > Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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