Workshop on Identifying and Combating Disinformation in Big Data
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| Date | 08:00 13 December 2018 - 12:00 13 December 2018 |
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| Location | Seattle, USA |
| Planners | Integrity Initiative, Simon Bracey Lane, Todd Carpenter, Brian Isle, Mike Johnson (Adventium), Victoria Lemieux, Tyler Smith |
| Participants | Emmi Bevensee, Simon Bracey-Lane, Emily Darraj, Xishuang Dong, Hoda Hamouda, Connie Justice, Madhav Kotteti, Victoria Lemieux, Chandra Mouli, Antonios Nestoras, Lijun Qian, Alexander Reid Ross, Char Sample, Tyler Smith |
The Workshop on Identifying and Combating Disinformation in Big Data was run by Adventium Labs as part of the 4 day 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, with support[Of what kind?] from the Integrity Initiative.
Official narrative
The programme stated: "Malicious actors use techniques such as disinformation to skew public perception. This workshop focuses on methods to detect and counter both malicious actors with the intention of spreading disinformation and disinformation itself. Solutions that require Big Data, solutions that address actors who attempt to influence Big Data, and detection of disinformation using Big Data approaches are all in scope. Advancements in detection or prevention of disinformation in social media, journalism, and voting are of particular interest. This workshop seeks to bring together experts from diverse fields such as computer science, archival science, and social science. For example, computer science can provide technology to protect, share, and evaluate information. Archival science can provide techniques to detect inauthentic information and organize, preserve, and curate information. Social science can provide techniques to understand the motivation and effects of disinformation actors."
Schedule
- Keynote: War in Peacetime: Coping with today’s rapidly changing world, Simon Bracey-Lane
- Political Warfare: Competition in the Cyber Era, Antonios Nestoras
- Leveraging Archival Theory to Develop A Taxonomy of Online Disinformation, Dr. Victoria Lemieux, Tyler Smith
- The Alt Right and Global Information Warfare, Alexander Reid Ross and Emmi Bevensee
- Trustworthiness of Citizen Journalists Videos from the Perspective of Archival Science, Hoda Hamouda
- The Strategic Need to Understand Online Memes and Modern Information Warfare Theory, Greg Rowett
- Real World Examples Suggest a Path to Automated Mitigation of Disinformation, Brian Isle
- Multiple Time-Series Data Analysis for Rumor Detection on Social Media, Chandra Mouli, Madhav Kotteti, Xishuang Dong, Lijun Qian
- Fake News: A Method to Measure Distance from Fact, Dr. Char Sample, Dr. Connie Justice, and Dr. Emily Darraj
- Countering Inside Threat Actors in Algorithm-Based Media, Tyler Smith
Known Participant
1 of the 14 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
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| Simon Bracey-Lane | A "highly improbable left wing firebrand" who worked for the Institute for Statecraft and whom they denied was a spook. |
