Karl Aberer

LSIR, IC (emeritus, retired), EPFL. Profile page

Karl Aberer is mapped on the EPFL MDH Research Landscape for work on misinformation, disinformation, targeted harm and hate speech. 21 of their works are recorded here.

Works recorded here

• Tactical Reframing of Online Disinformation Campaigns Against The Istanbul Convention
  publication, 2021, direct MDH relevance
• SciLander: Mapping the Scientific News Landscape
  publication, 2023, direct MDH relevance
• Maximal fusion of facts on the web with credibility guarantee
  publication, 2019, direct MDH relevance
• On Representation Learning for Scientific News Articles Using Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs
  publication, 2021, direct MDH relevance
• Combating Online Scientific Misinformation (Doctoral Thesis)
  publication, 2022, direct MDH relevance
• Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation (Doctoral Thesis)
  thesis, 2019, direct MDH relevance
• SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking
  publication, 2021, direct MDH relevance
• The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation (Doctoral Thesis)
  thesis, 2022, direct MDH relevance
• Harmful information used against humanitarian organisations (Engineering for Humanitarian Action / EHA)
  project, February 2021 - January 2024, direct MDH relevance
• Can Celebrities Burst Your Bubble?
  publication, 2020, adjacent MDH relevance
• WayPop Machine: A Wayback Machine to Investigate Popularity and Root Out Trolls
  publication, 2022, direct MDH relevance
• Characterizing Retweet Bots: The Case of Black Market Accounts
  publication, 2022, direct MDH relevance
• Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends
  publication, 2021, direct MDH relevance
• A Dataset of State-Censored Tweets
  publication, 2021, direct MDH relevance
• Misleading Repurposing on Twitter
  publication, 2023, direct MDH relevance
• Disinformation from the Inside, Combining Machine Learning and Journalism to Investigate Sockpuppet Campaigns
  publication, 2020, direct MDH relevance
• SciLens News Platform: A System for Real-Time Evaluation of News Articles
  publication, 2020, direct MDH relevance
• SciLens: Evaluating the Quality of Scientific News Articles Using Social Media and Scientific Literature Indicators
  publication, 2019, direct MDH relevance
• Stance Detection on Social Media with Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
  publication, 2024, infrastructure MDH relevance
• A Dynamic Embedding Model of the Media Landscape
  publication, 2019, adjacent MDH relevance
• Selection Bias in News Coverage: Learning it, Fighting it
  publication, 2018, adjacent MDH relevance

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Part of the EPFL MDH Research Landscape, a map of research at EPFL on misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. The whole dataset is at data.json and in one readable file at mdh-landscape.md.