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New paper on auditing Elon's early impact on Twitter.
- Hateful users became more hateful
- Hate increased dramatically
- There was no overall change in bots
Paper (accepted to ICWSM 2023) is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04129
On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and removal of spam bots among his goals for the platform. Given findings of prior research on moderation and hate speech in online communities, the promise of less strict content moderation poses the concern that hate will rise on Twitter. We examine the levels of hate speech and prevalence of bots before and after Musk's acquisition of the platform. We find that hate speech rose dramatically upon Musk purchasing Twitter and the prevalence of most types of bots increased, while the prevalence of astroturf bots decreased.
Elden Ring or Tenure Track?
McSweeney’s hits hard as usual
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/elden-ring-or-tenure-track-professor
Honoured to receive this award for Most Influential Paper (10-year) from #MSR2023!
Hard to believe it's been a decade since we started working on machine learning for code.
It's been a delight working with @miltos1, as well as all of my other collaborators over the years!
https://twitter.com/msrconf/status/1640632483967295488?s=46&t=7uDrrb9YgiGtBBR0uVO9aA
“1“Mining source code repositories at massive scale using language modeling” by Miltiadis Allamanis and Charles Sutton. It has been awarded for pioneering the use of large-scale language models on source code, something that is now extremely relevant and timely after 10 years. 2/3”
Esther Schindler
Meredith Whittaker
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Paul Smaldino
Mark Riedl