Tag: Research
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Dissertation Submitted: The AI-Driven Disinformation Ecosystem
On September 30, I submitted my dissertation, “The AI-Driven Disinformation Ecosystem: Measurement Validity Across Generation, Perception, Detection, and Mitigation”. The thesis makes two contributions of its own: a reusable sequence of checks for building and evaluating detection benchmarks, and a map that relates claims about disinformation campaigns to the evidence needed to support them. Parts…
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Interrupting the Chain: Our Kill Chain Paper at INFORMATIK 2026
Today the workshop “From Prompt to Propaganda: Generative AI and the New Dis/Mis-Information Lifecycle” takes place in Dresden, as part of INFORMATIK 2026, organized by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique) leads the workshop. Two papers by Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and me are part of it. Accepted workshop papers are published…
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RogueGPT Is Published in the Journal of Open Source Software
Today the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) published our paper “RogueGPT: A Controlled Stimulus Generation Framework for News Authenticity Research”, written with Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl. JOSS reviews the software along with the paper: reviewers install it, check that it does what the paper says, and look at the documentation and tests. What…
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Experts Disagree on How to Fight AI Disinformation: Our Paper in the HKS Misinformation Review
Our research note “Experts Disagree on How to Fight AI Disinformation, but Agree That Health and Politics Need Different Solutions” is out today in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and I report an expert survey on AI-generated disinformation. The survey Between July 2025 and March 2026, 54 experts answered our…
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Eroding the Truth-Default: Who Spots AI-Generated News?
Our paper “Eroding the Truth-Default: A Causal Analysis of Human Susceptibility to Foundation Model Hallucinations and Disinformation in the Wild” is now published in the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW ’26). Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and I analyze the responses collected with JudgeGPT, our open survey platform. The setup JudgeGPT shows…
