Tag: Disinformation
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Introducing CRED-1: An Open Domain Credibility Dataset for Fighting Online Misinformation
How do you know whether a news source is trustworthy? That question is at the heart of my latest research project. Today, I am releasing CRED-1, an open multi-signal domain credibility dataset that assigns credibility scores to 2,672 domains known for publishing misinformation, conspiracy theories, or other unreliable content. Why Another Dataset? Existing source lists…
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Three Open Datasets on AI-Driven Disinformation: From LLM-Generated News to Expert Threat Assessments
How well can people actually detect AI-generated news? What strategies do large language models use to mimic journalistic writing? And what do domain experts think about the evolving threat landscape of generative AI disinformation? These are the questions driving a multi-year, mixed-methods research program on AI-driven disinformation. Today, I’m making three core datasets from this…
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Industrialized Deception: How LLMs Are Reshaping the Disinformation Landscape
Our paper “Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems” has been accepted at ACM TheWebConf ’26 (WWW ’26) in Dubai. It examines how large language models are reshaping the disinformation landscape and what we can do about it. The Problem: Deception at Industrial Scale Generative AI has fundamentally changed how misinformation…
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JudgeGPT and RogueGPT Reach Version 1.0: Our News Perception Survey Is Open
Today we released version 1.0.0 of two open-source tools for our research on AI-generated news: JudgeGPT and RogueGPT. With this release, the JudgeGPT survey officially opens for data collection, and its data structure is now stable. Why two tools In our survey Blessing or Curse?, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and I named the scarcity of…
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Blessing or Curse? Our Survey on Generative AI and Fake News Is on arXiv
The first paper from my doctoral research is online. “Blessing or Curse? A Survey on the Impact of Generative AI on Fake News”, written with Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl, appeared on arXiv on April 3. We have submitted it to ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). Why start with a survey Generative…