PhD Student at University of Washington | Microsoft Research
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Saloni Dash retweeted
Repeating duplicated messages—known as CopyPasta—over and over online is a common misinformation strategy. Using AI to paraphrase the message, what the authors call “AIPasta,” could be even more effective at creating a false consensus. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/5Gr250Ww2Vi
ALT #StopTheSteal AIPasta Stimuli: Profile images, usernames, and handles constructed by Jalbert et al. 2025. Profiles do not represent real users and were created from stock images and with handles that are not currently in use.
Excited to announce that my paper "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale" with my wonderful collaborators @YiweiXuPhD, @MaddyJalbert, and @emmaspiro has been published at PNAS Nexus!
Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
AIPasta (vs. Control) also increases belief in the exact false claim of the campaign, depending on political orientation. Current state-of-the-art AI-text detectors fail to detect AIPasta, enabling these operations to scale successfully.
Saloni Dash retweeted
Huge thanks to a dream team from @uwcip @uw_ischool @uwcse @uwcomm. Excited to lead this @uw_phi grant with @DashSaloni and @XinyiZhouXZ, alongside amazing collaborators @emmaspiro, @amyxzh, and WangLiao. Look forward to diving into LLMs and health (mis)info evaluation together
We're excited to announce the award of $25,000 pilot grants to 14 @UW research teams engaged in #populationhealth projects that seek to address grand challenges such as rural health access, health misinformation, and youth health. washington.edu/populationhea…
Saloni Dash retweeted
"Our field was built on decades-old bodies of research across a range of disciplines. It wasn’t invented by a ‘class of misinformation experts’ in 2016." cip.uw.edu/2024/01/24/misinf…
Misinformation scholarship isn't new. I've been working in this space for decades.
Those who try to dismiss it as "more panic" ignore the breadth of the scholarship and complexity of the issues.
Important piece by @zkharazian @DashSaloni @katestarbird @emmaspiro @jevinwest et al! cc @Sander_vdLinden @DG_Rand @GordPennycook @jonathanstea @marco_zenone
Saloni Dash retweeted
@Prerna_99, a doctoral student from the @uw_ischool studies the phenomenon of online misinformation, recognizing its multifaceted complexity. She focuses on studying the issue’s algorithmic, policy, fact-checking and design aspects. #UWGradSuccess
grad.uw.edu/prerna-juneja/
Saloni Dash retweeted
Distressing news!! @YouTube reverses stance on misinfo, allowing elec denialism. In our @acm_chi paper, we found positive impact of their prev policy with fewer elect fraud videos in search results. This decision is a significant step backward. Our paper bit.ly/3WLnivF
YouTube said it will no longer remove content featuring false claims that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy instituted more than two years ago amid a wave of misinformation about the election cnn.it/3oHdVAx
My lab is the best 😭
Karma is my boyfriend!! WE GOT THE TICKETS!!!!! @DashSaloni @engelkri @hummddamita
Every second of the wait was worth it. It was literally the hunger games!!!!!!
Can't wait to see you @taylorswift13
Thanks for the cool-headedness @blusoulna
Saloni Dash retweeted
I'm ecstatic to share that my paper "Human and technological infrastructures of fact-checking" with @tanmit won 𝐓𝐖𝐎 awards at #cscw2022: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, and 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🥳
@uw_ischool @ACM_CSCW
arxiv.org/pdf/2205.10894.pdf
Saloni Dash retweeted
Check out "Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India," by Saloni Dash, et al., an Honorable Mention from COMPASS '22: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) bit.ly/3bXEpqN
