{"title":"Multimodal Zero-Shot Hateful Meme Detection","authors":"Jiawen Zhu, R. Lee, Wen-Haw Chong","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531557","url":null,"abstract":"Facebook has recently launched the hateful meme detection challenge, which garnered much attention in academic and industry research communities. Researchers have proposed multimodal deep learning classification methods to perform hateful meme detection. While the proposed methods have yielded promising results, these classification methods are mostly supervised and heavily rely on labeled data that are not always available in the real-world setting. Therefore, this paper explores and aims to perform hateful meme detection in a zero-shot setting. Working towards this goal, we propose Target-Aware Multimodal Enhancement (TAME), which is a novel deep generative framework that can improve existing hateful meme classification models’ performance in detecting unseen types of hateful memes. We conduct extensive experiments on the Facebook hateful meme dataset, and the results show that TAME can significantly improve the state-of-the-art hateful meme classification methods’ performance in seen and unseen settings.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131181118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Conduct an Ethics Assessment of AI in Policing","authors":"Zachary J. Goldberg","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3539509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3539509","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides two distinct approaches to conduct an ethics assessment of AI in policing. Crucially, ethical scrutiny must engage all aspects of the policing context. The context for adopting AI is neither solely technical nor solely societal in importance; it is a socio-technical interaction whereby technological systems (law enforcement or safeguarding) are designed by humans (developers) for humans (police) with an impact on individuals (citizens, residents, suspects, victims) and their relationship with the police. With this socio-technical complexity forming the policing context, ethical assessments must be carried out encompassing both the technical and the societal (human).","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122544007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GNoM: Graph Neural Network Enhanced Language Models for Disaster Related Multilingual Text Classification","authors":"Samujjwal Ghosh, Subhadeep Maji, M. Desarkar","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531561","url":null,"abstract":"Online social media works as a source of various valuable and actionable information during disasters. These information might be available in multiple languages due to the nature of user generated content. An effective system to automatically identify and categorize these actionable information should be capable to handle multiple languages and under limited supervision. However, existing works mostly focus on English language only with the assumption that sufficient labeled data is available. To overcome these challenges, we propose a multilingual disaster related text classification system which is capable to work undervmonolingual, cross-lingual and multilingual lingual scenarios and under limited supervision. Our end-to-end trainable framework combines the versatility of graph neural networks, by applying over the corpus, with the power of transformer based large language models, over examples, with the help of cross-attention between the two. We evaluate our framework over total nine English, Non-English and monolingual datasets invmonolingual, cross-lingual and multilingual lingual classification scenarios. Our framework outperforms state-of-the-art models in disaster domain and multilingual BERT baseline in terms of Weighted F1 score. We also show the generalizability of the proposed model under limited supervision.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123811104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Removal of Anti-Vaccine Content Impacts Social Media Discourse","authors":"Tamar Mitts, N. Pisharody, Jacob N. Shapiro","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531548","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past several years, a growing number of social media platforms have begun taking an active role in content moderation and online speech regulation. While enforcement actions have been shown to improve outcomes within moderating platforms, less is known about possible spillover effects across platforms. We study the impact of removing groups promoting anti-vaccine content on Facebook on engagement with similar content on Twitter. We followed 160 Facebook groups discussing COVID-19 vaccines and prospectively tracked their removal from the platform between April and September 2021. We then identified users who cited these groups on Twitter, and examined their online behavior over time. Our findings from a stacked difference-in-differences analysis shows that users citing removed Facebook groups promoted more anti-vaccine content on Twitter in the month after the removals. In particular, users citing the removed groups used 10-33% more anti-vaccine keywords on Twitter, when compared to accounts citing groups that were not removed. Our results suggest that taking down anti-vaccine content on one platform can result in increased production of similar content on other platforms, raising questions about the overall effectiveness of these measures.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127289815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socio-Economic Diversity in Human Annotations","authors":"Shaoyang Fan, Pinar Barlas, Evgenia Christoforou, Jahna Otterbacher, S. Sadiq, Gianluca Demartini","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531588","url":null,"abstract":"Human annotations can help indexing digital resources as well as improving search and recommendation systems. Human annotators may carry their bias and stereotypes in the labels they create when annotating digital content. These are then reflected in machine learning models trained with such data. The result is a reinforcement loop where end-users are pushed stereotypical content by the search and recommendation systems they use on a daily basis. In order to break the loop, the impact on models of using diverse data that can better represent a diverse population has been looked at. In this work, we look at how human annotators in the US annotate digital content different from content which is popular on the Web and social media. We present the results of a controlled user study in which participants are asked to annotate videos of common tasks performed by people from various socio-economic backgrounds around the world. We test for the presence of social stereotypes and investigate the diversity of the provided annotations, especially since some abstract labels may reveal information about annotators’ emotional state and judgment. We observe different types of annotations for content from different socio-economic levels. Furthermore, we find regional and income level biases in annotation sentiment.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122341871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Auditing Search Query Suggestion Bias Through Recursive Algorithm Interrogation","authors":"Fabian Haak, Philipp Schaer","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531567","url":null,"abstract":"Despite their important role in online information search, search query suggestions have not been researched as much as most other aspects of search engines. Although reasons for this are multi-faceted, the sparseness of context and the limited data basis of up to ten suggestions per search query pose the most significant problem in identifying bias in search query suggestions. The most proven method to reduce sparseness and improve the validity of bias identification of search query suggestions so far is to consider suggestions from subsequent searches over time for the same query. This work presents a new, alternative approach to search query bias identification that includes less high-level suggestions to deepen the data basis of bias analyses. We employ recursive algorithm interrogation techniques and create suggestion trees that enable access to more subliminal search query suggestions. Based on these suggestions, we investigate topical group bias in person-related searches in the political domain.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131858625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheick Tidiane Ba, Andrea Michienzi, Barbara Guidi, Matteo Zignani, L. Ricci, S. Gaito
{"title":"Fork-based user migration in Blockchain Online Social Media","authors":"Cheick Tidiane Ba, Andrea Michienzi, Barbara Guidi, Matteo Zignani, L. Ricci, S. Gaito","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531597","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, Online Social Media (OSM) are among the most popular web services. Traditional OSM are known to be affected by serious issues including misinformation, fake news, censorship, and privacy violations, to the point that a pressing demand for new paradigms is raised by users all over the world. Among such paradigms, the concepts around the Web 3.0 are fueling a new revolution of online sociality, pushing towards the adoption of innovative and groundbreaking technologies. In particular, the decentralization of social services through the blockchain technology is representing the most valid alternative to current OSM, enabling the development of rewarding strategies for value redistribution, and fake news detection. However, the so-called Blockchain Online Social Media (BOSMs) are far from being mature, with different platforms that continually try to redefine their services in order to attract larger audiences, thus causing blockchain forks and massive user migrations, with the latter dominating the dynamics of the current OSM landscape, too. In this paper, we deal with the evolution of BOSMs from the perspective of user migration across platforms as a consequence of a fork event. We propose a general user migration model applicable to BOSMs to represent the evolution patterns of fork-based migrations, the multi-interaction structural complexity of BOSMs, and their growth characteristics. Within this framework, we also cope with the task of predicting how users will behave in the case of a fork, i.e. they will remain on the original blockchain or they will migrate to the new one. We apply our framework to the case study of the Steem-Hive fork event, and show the importance of considering both social and economic information, regardless of the learning algorithm considered. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on blockchain fork and its related user migration.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134314377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering Blockchain Enabling Win A Fortune Game among Novice through eAOM","authors":"Michellelibin Ten, WaiShiang Cheah, Y. Sim","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3539018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3539018","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain application development has received much attention nowadays. As development is complex and challenging, a systematic approach is needed to improve the product, services, and process quality. Despite the introduction of techniques, there are still inadequate models for demonstrating the blockchain's internal architecture. Hence, there is a gap when developing the blockchain application, a gap in the modelling environment of a blockchain development application. This paper introduces a new insight into blockchain application development through extended Agent-Oriented Modelling (eAOM). eAOM is a methodology for complex socio-technical system development, and we believe that it can reduce the complexity of implementing the blockchain application. In this paper, the eAOM is used to model a blockchain-based “win a fortune” system, which includes smart contract development. It showcases the feasibility of adopting eAOM to model a blockchain enabling application. A usability survey among the novices has further validated the usability and benefits of eAOM in the blockchain enabling application development.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132170084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Mutated Misinformation More Contagious? A Case Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter","authors":"Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Wen-Ting Chung","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531562","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of online misinformation has become a major global risk. Understanding how misinformation propagates on social media is vital. While prior studies suggest that the content factors, such as emotion and topic in texts, are closely related to the dissemination of misinformation, the effect of users’ commentary on misinformation during its spreading on social media has been long overlooked. In this paper, we identify the patterns of “misinformation mutation” which captures ways misinformation is commented and shared by social media users. Our study focus on misinformation originated from digital news outlets and shared on Twitter. Through an analysis of over 240 thousand tweets capturing how users share COVID-19 pandemic-related misinformation news over a five-month period, we study the prevalence and factors of the misinformation mutation. We examine the different kinds of mutation in terms of how the article was cited from the news source, and how the content was edited, compared with its original text, and test the relationship between misinformation’s mutation and its spread on Twitter. Our results indicate a positive relationship between information mutation and spreading outcome – and such a relationship is stronger for news articles shared from non-credible outlets than those from credible ones. This study provides the first quantitative evidence of how misinformation propagation may be exacerbated by users’ commentary. Our study contributes to the understanding of misinformation spreading on social media and has implications for countering misinformation.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"620 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134482609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrative Building in Propaganda Networks on Indian Twitter","authors":"Saloni Dash, Arshia Arya, Sukhnidh Kaur, J. Pal","doi":"10.1145/3501247.3531581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531581","url":null,"abstract":"The misuse of social media platforms to influence public opinion through propaganda campaigns are a cause of rising concern globally. Particularly, countries like India, where politicians communicate with the public through unmediated, curated twitter feeds, have witnessed a significant surge in strategic online manipulation. In this paper, we study propaganda messaging on Indian Twitter during two politically polarizing events. We collect over 80M Hindi and English tweets from over 26k politicians and 6k influencers. Using a mixed-methods approach, we identify major propaganda narratives across all events. We further use a network causal inference based approach to isolate influential actors who play a significant role in propagating the identified narratives. We conclude by discussing how these opinion leaders and their information dissemination, are central to instigating and building propaganda campaigns on Twitter.","PeriodicalId":136381,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126958651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}