At 20.00 on Monday, 2 November 2020, a terrorist attack took place in Vienna, Austria.[1] Four civilians and the attacker were killed, more than 20 people including a police officer …
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Are you confident that you can always determine the trustworthiness of what you read on social media? What if you don’t know much about a topic? Can you still do …
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Online textual information has been increased tremendously over the years, leading to the demand of information verification. As a result, Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on tasks such as stance …
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‘Filter bubbles’ and ‘echo chambers’ are popular terms to describe the phenomenon social scientists call ‘selective exposure’. The theory of selective exposure (Klapper, 1957) in brief states that people tend …
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Journalists can be often accused of producing and spreading ‘fake news’; usually by those being in charge when the journalists are addressing “disagreeable” topics in relation to them. In fact, …
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The University of Nicosia Decentralized Chapters is a global community consisting of like-minded individuals that share a common passion in the space of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. The main objective …
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With the overarching objective to assist users in determining the trustworthiness of information in social media using an intermediary-free approach, EUNOMIA employs a decentralised architecture Mastodon instance and implements AI …
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The Covid-19 outbreak has raised afresh the debate about the dangers of misinformation on social media. During the time of the pandemic, myths about coronavirus cures and treatments, its origins …
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EUNOMIA is being built on top of Mastodon. Mastodon has some unique qualities that make it a great foundation for research projects and businesses. It is a social network where …
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A well-documented phenomenon in communication science is the fact that individuals seem to think that others are more susceptible to media effects than themselves. We tend to assume that commercials, …
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