Farnaz Jahanbakhsh

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#SocialComputing #HCI | Postdoc at Stanford HAI | Incoming assistant prof at
UMich CSE in 2024 | prev: PhD at MIT CSAIL
Farnaz JahanbakhshJun 5, 2024
We're asking crowd workers to do a longish task where they differentiate between items (say articles). We're worried that fatigue might inhibit differentiation. We want to introduce a break where they do sth lightweight and fun. Has anyone tried this? What activities did you use?
Farnaz JahanbakhshJun 1, 2024
Got my hood!
Farnaz JahanbakhshMay 16, 2024

My work was featured in the MIT News today!

Read more on empowering users to assess the accuracy of content and see assessments from their trusted sources everywhere on the web:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/new-tool-trustnet-empowers-users-to-fight-online-misinformation-0516

New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation

In an effort to decentralize the fight against online misinformation, MIT researchers developed the Trustnet browser extension, which empowers individuals to assess the accuracy of any content on any website, and also view content assessments from people they trust.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Show threadFarnaz JahanbakhshMar 28, 2024
What’s more, people encounter (mis)information anywhere on the web, not just on social platforms. It is unrealistic to expect that every website on the web, some the very perpetrators of misinformation, offer misinformation moderation and in a fair and rigorous way. And here’s where our CHI'24 paper comes to the rescue.
Show threadFarnaz JahanbakhshMar 28, 2024
I’ve been advocating for decentralizing the power to moderate misinformation. We had a paper at #CSCW22 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3555637) where we showed how a platform can do that. There, I built a social media platform that resembles any other, except for 2 major differences: It gives any user the power to assess content accuracy & specify whose assessment they trust. Of course platforms are unlikely to change their design so drastically, not w/o push from the outside.
Farnaz JahanbakhshMar 28, 2024

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨
We show how enabling users to moderate misinformation can be deployed everywhere on the web, in a platform-agnostic manner and without support from the social platforms or individual web sites.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11485.pdf
#CHI24
with @karger

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Show threadFarnaz JahanbakhshOct 26, 2023

You can take a look at some of the work I've done here https://people.csail.mit.edu/farnazj/
The topics will not be limited to these, but they can give you an idea of the type of research we’ll do.

Remember to apply by December 15!
https://cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/graduate/admissions/

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Farnaz JahanbakhshOct 26, 2023

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for fall 2024 to join my new research lab at the University of Michigan CSE!

Interested in social computing systems that empower people? Consider applying!

Please spread the word 📣

Farnaz JahanbakhshAug 2, 2023

2 (rather overdue but still very exciting) announcements: I’ll be joining the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in fall 2024! And this year, I’ll be a postdoc at
Stanford HAI working with @msbernst and Sanmi Koyejo!

Beyond thrilled for these next steps 😊

Farnaz JahanbakhshJun 13, 2023
PhD Defense ✅
Incredibly lucky and grateful to have been advised by @karger and to have had
@arvind and
Adam Berinsky on my dissertation committee!