IDeaS Center - Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity

IDeaS Center February 2025 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/a3df36443997/ideas-center-february-newsletter-17582010

IDeaS Seminar Series - Fil Menczer, Tuesday February 25th - https://mailchi.mp/65e540005f8c/ideas-seminar-series-spring25-17581867

IDeaS Seminar Series - Matthew Benigni, Tuesday February 18 - https://mailchi.mp/e832d020f4b7/ideas-seminar-series-spring25

IDeaS AI & Disinformation Summit - Thursday Jan 23rd and Friday January 24th

Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the U.S. election have amassed 2 billion views on social media platform X this year, according to a report by non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate.

IDeaS Seminar Series - Hong Shen, Tuesday December 3rd - https://mailchi.mp/0e6374203085/ideas-seminar-series-fall2024-17580299

Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and research referenced in the article by Kanishka Singh and Sheila Dang in Reuters entitled, "Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say". Click the link to read the article.

Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the U.S. election have amassed 2 billion views on social media platform X this year, according to a report by non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and research is referenced in the article by Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic entitled, "Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg". Click the link to read the article.

Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg Facebook doesn’t want attention right now.

IDeaS Center October 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/37627733998d/ideas-center-october-newsletter-17579671

IDeaS Seminar Series - Renée DiResta, Tuesday October 22nd - https://mailchi.mp/d8c0f212ae9e/ideas-seminar-series-fall2024-17579364

IDeaS Center Event - https://mailchi.mp/29aca9159971/ideas-center-disinformation_democracy

IDeaS Seminar Series - Jessica Baweja, Tuesday October 8th - https://mailchi.mp/dd3571448cb6/ideas-seminar-series-fall2024-17579091

IDeaS Center September 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/9b39d928ab74/ideas-center-september-newsletter-17335618

IDeaS Seminar Series - Ananya Sen , Tuesday October 1st - https://mailchi.mp/1344eb18495e/ideas-seminar-series-fall2024-17578967

2024 IDeaS Conference
Annual Conference on Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Extremism Online
IDeaS will host it's second hybrid conference on disinformation, hate speech, and extremism online on September 18-20, 2024 at Carnegie Mellon University. This conference aims to advance the science of social-cybersecurity through research and applications in this area. For more information and to register go to https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference-index.html

IDeaS Seminar Series - Ray Block, Jr. , Tuesday September 10th - https://mailchi.mp/b97a3f2a727d/ideas-seminar-series-fall2024-17336362

IDeaS Center August 2024 Newsletter -

IDeaS Center August 2024 Newsletter IDeaS will host it's second hybrid conference on disinformation, hate speech, and extremism online in September 2024. This conference aims to advance the science of social-cybersecurity through research and applications in this area.  

EVENT POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBD
SAVE THE DATE! On September 26th, The IDeaS Center along with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries will host Disinform.ed, CMU's first annual disinformation day! The purpose of Disinform.ed is to hold a media literacy event focused on increasing awareness about the nature of disinformation. Through presentations, panels demonstrations and interaction with students and faculty researching in this area, the community will learn the nature of disinformation, how it spreads, who spreads it, the consequences of such disinformation, and how it can be countered.