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至关重要，特别是在信息的快速和广泛传播方面。然而，不良行为者利用了社交媒体，例如通过信息操纵来解决这个问题。该项目旨在通过将一组算法、软件框架和系统设计从研究实验室转移到积极的实践者手中来解决这些挑战。识别并减少信息操纵（错误信息和dis-information）。该项目的新颖之处在于设计和开发具有生产能力的开源软件套件，以实现社交媒体数据的快速收集、管理和分析。该项目的更广泛意义和重要性主要与确保稳定性有关。该项目创建的生产就绪软件还可以帮助教育未来人员系统、机器学习和数据科学领域的基本软件开发技能。在该提案中，项目团队的目标是转变工具项目团队将把前沿研究付诸实践。根据各种大型社交媒体数据收集系统的工作经验，开发一个功能齐全的爬虫构建工具包 接下来，项目团队将开发一个数据表征和增强工具包，集成来自信息处理的最先进技术。最后，项目团队将开发一套数据访问和共享API，包括一个联邦子系统，谁能构建新技术就围绕这个子系统。该奖项是NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力评估，被认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。