Collaborative Research: SaTC: TTP: Medium: iDRAMA.cloud: A Platform for Measuring and Understanding Information Manipulation

协作研究：SaTC：TTP：中：iDRAMA.cloud：测量和理解信息操纵的平台

• 批准号: 2247868
• 负责人: Gianluca Stringhini
• 金额: $ 49.43万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SaTC; TTP; Medium

Social media has become crucial to our society, especially when it comes to the rapid and broad dissemination of information. However, bad actors have exploited social media, for example via information manipulation. While there have been efforts made to address the problem, there are a variety of challenges that make it difficult to study and combat information manipulation in practice. This project aims to address these challenges by transitioning a set of algorithms, software frameworks, and system designs out of the research lab into the hands of active practitioners to help identify and mitigate information manipulation (misinformation and dis-information). This project’s novelties are the design and development of production capable, open-source software suite to enable the rapid collection, management, and analysis of social media data. The project’s broader significance and importance is primarily related to ensuring the stability of the information ecosystem. The production ready software created under the project can also help educate future practitioners about fundamental software development skills in the areas of systems, machine learning, and data science.In this proposal, the project team aims to transition the tooling that has enabled cutting edge research into practice. The project team will develop a full featured crawler construction toolkit built from experiences working on a variety of large-scale social media data collection systems. Next, the project team will develop a data characterization and augmentation toolkit, integrating state-of-the-art techniques from information manipulation research. Finally, the project team will develop a set of data access and sharing APIs, including a federation subsystem, that practitioners can build new technologies around.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

社交媒体对我们的社会变得至关重要，尤其是在信息的快速和广泛传播方面。但是，坏演员已经通过信息操纵来探索社交媒体。尽管已经做出了解决这个问题的努力，但存在各种挑战，使得在实践中很难研究和打击信息操纵。该项目旨在通过转变一组从研究实验室的算法，软件框架和系统设计来解决这些挑战，以帮助识别和减轻信息操作（错误信息和不明信息）的手中。该项目的新颖性是设计和开发具有生产的开源软件套件，以实现社交媒体数据的快速收集，管理和分析。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性主要与确保信息生态系统的稳定性有关。该项目下创建的生产就绪软件还可以帮助教育未来的实践者有关系统，机器学习和数据科学领域的基本软件开发技能。在本提案中，项目团队旨在转变已将尖端研究迈进的工具。项目团队将开发一个由在各种大型社交媒体数据收集系统上工作的经验而建立的完整的Crawler Construction Toolkit。接下来，项目团队将开发数据表征和增强工具包，从而整合信息操纵研究的最新技术。最后，项目团队将开发一套数据访问和共享API，包括联邦子系统，从业人员可以在周围建立新技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。