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Posts of peril: Detecting information about hazards in text


Keith Burghardt, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Chyna Tang, Anne Pisor, Kristina Lerman (2026)

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Anne her coauthors have explored whether people are more credulous (willing to believe) information about hazards than about benefits. The team, led by Keith Burghardt, developed a tool for identifying hazard information from digital content, diferentiating hazard information from moral outrage and emotions. Using that tool, they found that information operators might be using the threat of hazards to rally support from users.

This was a peer-reviewed conference paper published in conference proceedings.