OSoMe
The Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe, pronounced awe•some) is an interdisciplinary research center at Indiana University. OSoMe unites data scientists and journalists in studying the role of media and technology in society, and building tools to analyze and counter manipulation on social media.
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IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – that's not censorship
When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real people may be fooled into believing that they are seeing the opinions of fellow citizens. In contrast, the posts shared by real people are buried....
Menczer AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, named Filippo Menczer to its 2024 fellows’ class, a lifetime honor within the scientific community. Menczer is among 471 scientists,...
A Farewell to Moe
In Memoriam: Moe, Beloved Compute Cluster It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that we announce the decommissioning of Moe, our steadfast compute cluster, which served the research community faithfully for over a decade (doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.87). Born from cutting-edge technology of its tim...
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