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DESCRIPTION:The discussion will describe several different methods to under
 stand and describe human behavior on the Internet\, and the effect of offl
 ine events on online communities. The central focus of this work is a broa
 d investigation into how groups of people behave online. Research will be 
 presented that seeks to better understand the effect of policies enacted b
 y governments or other social media companies on online behavior. Included
  will be an alternative to censorship as a way to stop the spread of misin
 formation and propaganda online as well as preliminary results on this int
 ervention. GitHub was used to research how new information is adopted into
  a group\, and the resulting struggle that emerges from fights over how to
  apply this new knowledge. The results suggest that censorship has an impa
 ct on the structure of groups and that deplatforming results in more frequ
 ent users to leave Reddit\, for example. Additionally\, results in pilotin
 g a social media literacy site suggests that people can be taught to do th
 eir own fact checking when they come across misinformation on social media
 \, that will result in less misinformation in the news feeds of citizens a
 nd a more informed public\, hopefully.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Computer Societ
 y Chapter of the Louisville Section\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Pamela Thomas\, \n\
 nBldg: University Club of Louisville\, 200 East Brandeis Avenue\, Louisvil
 le\, Kentucky\, United States\, 40208
LOCATION:Bldg: University Club of Louisville\, 200 East Brandeis Avenue\, L
 ouisville\, Kentucky\, United States\, 40208
ORGANIZER:cwaters8@gmail.com
SEQUENCE:5
SUMMARY:Combatting the Spread of Online Misinformation
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/302738
X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The discussion will describe several diffe
 rent methods to understand and describe human behavior on the Internet\, a
 nd the effect of offline events on online communities. The central focus o
 f this work is a broad investigation into how groups of people behave onli
 ne. Research will be presented that seeks to better understand the effect 
 of policies enacted by governments or other social media companies on onli
 ne behavior. Included will be an alternative to censorship as a way to sto
 p the spread of misinformation and propaganda online as well as preliminar
 y results on this intervention. GitHub was used to research how new inform
 ation is adopted into a group\, and the resulting struggle that emerges fr
 om fights over how to apply this new knowledge. The results suggest that c
 ensorship has an impact on the structure of groups and that deplatforming 
 results in more frequent users to leave Reddit\, for example. Additionally
 \, results in piloting a social media literacy site suggests that people c
 an be taught to do their own fact checking when they come across misinform
 ation on social media\, that will result in less misinformation in the new
 s feeds of citizens and a more informed public\, hopefully.</p>
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