Media

2025

The CARISMA PI, Silvia Giordano, is interviewed by RSI about the impact on disinformation of the removal of the Facebook fact-checking program.
RSI Info: "L’addio al fact-checking peggiorerà la comunicazione sui social". Giorgia Fontana, January 16, 2025.
RSI Info: "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE5S9tSNdyG/?igsh=MTBkYnZvZHlzZWZ2OA==". January 16, 2025.
RSI Info: "https://fb.watch/x90XletYq3/". January 16, 2025.
The CARISMA PI, Silvia Giordano, is interviewed by RSI about the recent dump of Facebook fact-checking program.
RSI News: "https://youtu.be/-_gzNwO_tls". January 8, 2025.
The CARISMA PI Luca Luceri discusses on TIME the Meta’s larger pivot away from content moderation.
Time: "Why Meta’s Fact-Checking Change Could Lead to More Misinformation on Facebook and Instagram". Andrew R. Chow, January 7, 2025.

2024

The CARISMA PI, Fil Menczer, was cited in The Reuters.
The Reuters: "Elon Musk investor Gerber says he is 'kind of done with X'". Ross Kerber, November 20, 2024.
The CARISMA PI Luca Luceri was awarded of the young investigator award (ANSA).
ANSA: "Italy-USA: Issnaf event, Young investigator awards". November 15, 2024.
The CARISMA project research was cited in Science.
Science: "The five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers". Kai Kupferschmidt, October 31, 2024.
The research of the CARISMA project was mentioned in Bloomberg news.
Bloomberg: "It is getting harder to study fake news". F. D. Flam, October 12, 2024.
The CARISMA PI Fil Menczer is interviewed about foreign influence campaigns manipulation by Arstechnica.
Arstechnica: "How foreign influence campaigns manipulate your social media feeds". Filippo Menczer, October 9, 2024.
The CARISMA project received the attention of the Washington Post.
Washington Post: "Why conservatives get suspended more than liberals on social media". Will Oremus, October 6, 2024.
The CARISMA project received again the attention of the prestigious Tech Policy Press.
Tech Policy Press: "Researchers Validate the Dangers of Disinformation". Prithvi Iyer, August 15, 2024.
The superspreader research of the CARISMA project received the attention of IFL Science.
IFL Science: "Just 10 “Superspreaders” Are Responsible For Over A Third Of Misinformation On Twitter". Russell Moul, May 24, 2024.
ABC news discusses the superspreader research of the CARISMA project.
ABC News: "Misinformation posted to Twitter comes from 'superspreader' accounts, say researchers, amid warnings for future of content moderation on X". Brianna Morris-Grant, May 22, 2024.
The CARISMA research was mentioned in the Bullettin of the Atomic Scientists.
The Bullettin: "How to better study - and then improve - today's corrupted information environment". Sara Goudarzi, March 1, 2024.

2023

The work on toxicity of X involving the CARISMA PI Luca Luceri was presented on the New York Post and on The Conversation.
NY Post: "Social media trolls are inspired by 'likes'". Adriana Diaz, December 4, 2023.
The Conversation: "Online 'likes' for toxic social media posts prompt more - and more hateful - messages". Joseph B. Walther, December 4, 2023.
CARISMA activities on creating science-backed tools to improve social media content moderation policies was presented on TechXplore.
TechXplore: "Researchers are creating science-backed tools to improve social media content moderation policies". Julia Cohen, November 7, 2023.
CARISMA activities on finding of a large network of social bots managed by ChatGPT, and more in general the use of social bots to manipulate cryptocurrencies, performed by the team of PI Filippo Menczer received coverage by CCN, Forbes, Wired, Business Insider, Mashable, Tech Policy Press, NY Post, MIT Tech News, ZDNet, Politifact, Breitbart, and more.
CCN: "AI-Powered Crypto Scams: ChatGPT Used to Promote Bitcoin Scams on Twitter". Omar Elorfaly, August 23, 2023.
Forbes: "Elon Musk Tweets And Bots Boosted Price Of Altcoins Listed On FTX, Study Suggests". Antonio Pequeño IV, October 4, 2023.
Wired: "Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X". Will Knight, August 21, 2023.
Business Insider: "Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles - and regulators can't keep up". Shubham Agarwal, August 24, 2023.
Business Insider: "Wissenschaftler fanden mehr als 1000 KI-Spam-Bots, die versuchen, Menschen zu betrügen und ihre Social-Media-Profile zu stehlen". Shubham Agarwal, August 25, 2023.
Mashable: "Crypto bot network powered by ChatGPT uncovered on X". Matt Binder, August 21, 2023.
Tech Policy Press: "Researchers Identify False Twitter Personas Likely Powered by ChatGPT". Justin Hendrix, August 3, 2023.
NY Post: "Scientists found over 1,000 AI bots on X stealing selfies to create fake accounts". Shannon Thaler, August 24, 2023.
MIT Tech News: "Scientists Discover More Than 1,100 AI Bots On X Stealing Selfies To Create Fake Accounts". Mike Brennan, August 28, 2023.
ZDNet: "ChatGPT-assisted bots are spreading on social media". Maria Diaz, August 24, 2023.
Politifact: "How generative AI could help foreign adversaries influence U.S. elections". Loreben Tuquero, December 5, 2023.
Breitbart: "Researchers: AI-Generated Spam Bots Are Flooding Social Media, Scamming Humans". Lucas Nolan, August 24, 2023.
Tagesspiegel Background: "Wie KI schon heute die Welt der Desinformation und Propaganda auf den Kopf stellt". Christopher Nehring, October 12, 2023.
RSI, a national TV channel in Switzerland, dedicated a segment of the evening news to the CARISMA project, linked below (in Italian).
RSI - Il Quotidiano: "CARISMA: interview with Silvia Giordano". January 25, 2023.
The CARISMA project received the attention of the prestigious Tech Policy Press.
Tech Policy Press: "Using Science To Guide Social Media Regulation". Silvia Giordano, Filippo Menczer, Natascha Just, Florian Saurwein, John Bryden, Luca Luceri, January 9, 2023.