CASOS Center - Carnegie Mellon University

📢 Summer Institute Update

Our annual Summer Institute training workshop has been rescheduled to August 10–14, 2026.

Join us for an engaging week of learning, collaboration, and connection.

Registration is now open!

🔗 Learn more and register: https://www.cmu.edu/casos-center/events/index.html

We hope you can join us this August!

📢 2026 Annual IDeaS Conference

📅 October 12–14, 2026

📍 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid Event)

From climate change and elections to pandemics and emerging technologies, today’s world is shaped by how information spreads online. But alongside connection and community, digital platforms also enable the rapid spread of misinformation, hate speech, and extremism.

Join the IDeaS Conference as we explore:

🔍 Who is shaping online narratives—and why?
🌐 How misinformation spreads across networks
⚠️ The real-world consequences of online harms
🛠️ Strategies to counter these challenges

This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners in social-cybersecurity, featuring:

✔️ Panels & expert talks
✔️ Posters & research presentations
✔️ Technology demos

🎟️ Attend in person or virtually

👉 Register now: https://www.regpack.com/reg/templates/build/?g_id=100919882

For more info: [email protected]

New research shows perceived fairness matters more to Americans than effectiveness when it comes to social media interventions. Read Catherine King’s new blog:

How Fairness, Effectiveness, & Intrusiveness Shape Public Support - Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS) - Carnegie Mellon University Spotlight on new work from IDeaS researchers

Join us on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 4 PM EST on Zoom, for a seminar with Hans W. A. Hanley Member of the Technical Staff at Microsoft AI for his talk titled: Narrative Networks: Investigating Patterns of Influence and Propaganda across International News Outlets. Learn more and register here: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/seminars.html

Join us on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 4 PM EST on Zoom, for a seminar with Ethan Zuckerman, Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication and Director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst for his talk titled: Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony Learn more and register here: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social.../events/seminars.html

📢 Save the Date: AI-Enabled Network Analysis Training
Our five-day AI-Enabled Network Analysis Training – Summer Institute will be held June 1–5, 2026.
Explore how artificial intelligence can enhance network analysis through focused instruction and applied learning.
🔗 More details coming soon:
https://www.cmu.edu/casos-center/events/summer-institute-2026.html

Can people do more than just spot misinformation? IDeaS researcher Catherine King examines how we might teach people to actively counter it. Read her full blog: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/news1/blog-posts/blog-king-teach-counter-misinfo-spotted.html
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Join us Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, at 4 PM EST on Zoom, for a seminar with Sophia Choukas-Bradley, Ph.D, Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh for her talk titled: Social Media Platform Design and Adolescent Girls’ Mental Health: A Developmental Systems Perspective
Learn more and register here: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social.../events/seminars.html

IDeaS Knight fellow researcher Evan Williams explains how BEND metrics offer analysts a systematic and standardized way to characterize attempts to manipulate webgraphs using common Search Engine Optimization tactics. Read the full blog here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13212

Join us Tuesday, Dec. 2 2025, at 4 PM EST in TCS Hall room 358 and virtually on Zoom, for a seminar with Daniel Silverman, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology for his talk titled: Understanding Misinformation in Contemporary War: From Iraq and Syria to Russia and Ukraine and Beyond.
Learn more and register here: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social.../events/seminars.html