Kevin Yang

New @nature.com Health perspective 🧪 The invisible risks of AI-generated health information rdcu.be/VuS2jwQt6B3a We argue that these risks are serious, yet hidden from the institutions responsible for protecting public health w/ @matthewdeverna.com @yang3kc.bsky.social @harryyan.bsky.social

Check out our Nature Health perspective 👇

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I recently wrapped up my AI and Society class for the spring semester. It was a challenging but rewarding experience. I wrote about my reflections here: www.kaichengyang.me/blog/apps-an...

Last week at #CySoc2026 at #ICWSM2026, Los Angeles, we brought together researchers studying #onlinetoxicity, #onlineharassment, platform dynamics, #onlineinfluence, cross-lingual threats, and the growing role of AI in online platforms. 1/3

Excited to share this year's program for #CySoc2026 @icwsm.bsky.social in Los Angeles. This year’s workshop focuses on human–AI relationships, online toxicity, platform dynamics, and broader societal risks emerging around generative and agentic AI. 🧵1/2

New blog post: www.kaichengyang.me/blog/sharing...

Last day to submit your work to #CySoc2026 !

We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...

ICYMI. Website: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission site: easychair.org/conferences?...

If your code skills require user input at some point, explicitly require it by using the "AskUserQuestions" tools in skills.md, which would trigger the confirmation dialog shown below every time.

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📣CFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. 📅Submission: March 22nd, 2026 📅Notification: April 8th, 2026 🔗 Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/

We are looking forward to your amazing submissions to the CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2026! Learn more here: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Note: the previously circulated submission deadline has been shifted.

CySoc 2026 is back! Check out the CfP below. We are also looking for PC members. Pin me if you are interested in joining!

This story via @theconversation.com weaves together research done with @yang3kc.bsky.social @baottruong.bsky.social and several others: 🧪 Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs – threatening democracy theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai...

Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy. #SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪 Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🚨 New working paper 🚨 Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims? We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024). Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary. Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83 Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...

Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...

Great report on the worldwide news landscape 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

Attending #ICA this week. Let’s catch up 😀

A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.

Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={qu... . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.

The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877