@farnaz@hci.social

· 29mo ago

My work was featured in the MIT News today!

Read more on empowering users to assess the accuracy of content and see assessments from their trusted sources everywhere on the web:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/new-tool-trustnet-empowers-users-to-fight-online-misinformation-0516

news.mit.edu

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 28mo ago

Got my hood!

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 40mo ago

PhD Defense ✅
Incredibly lucky and grateful to have been advised by @karger@hci.social and to have had
@arvind@vis.social and
Adam Berinsky on my dissertation committee!

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 38mo ago

2 (rather overdue but still very exciting) announcements: I’ll be joining the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in fall 2024! And this year, I’ll be a postdoc at
Stanford HAI working with @msbernst@hci.social and Sanmi Koyejo!

Beyond thrilled for these next steps 😊

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 42mo ago

By a show of hands, who is going to #CHI2023? 🙋‍♀️ Looking forward to meeting new friends and catching up with old ones!

hci.social

🌱 hci.social

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 30mo ago

Replying to

What’s more, people encounter (mis)information anywhere on the web, not just on social platforms. It is unrealistic to expect that every website on the web, some the very perpetrators of misinformation, offer misinformation moderation and in a fair and rigorous way. And here’s where our CHI'24 paper comes to the rescue.

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 35mo ago

Replying to

You can take a look at some of the work I've done here https://people.csail.mit.edu/farnazj/ The topics will not be limited to these, but they can give you an idea of the type of research we’ll do. Remember to apply by December 15! https://cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/graduate/admissions/

people.csail.mit.edu

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 41mo ago

@gvelez17@mas.to Hi Golda, sure, let's meet. What time works for you?

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 43mo ago

@gvelez17@mas.to Sure, sounds interesting! Can you send me an email to set a time? farnazj@mit.edu

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 30mo ago

Replying to

I’ve been advocating for decentralizing the power to moderate misinformation. We had a paper at #CSCW22 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3555637) where we showed how a platform can do that. There, I built a social media platform that resembles any other, except for 2 major differences: It gives any user the power to assess content accuracy & specify whose assessment they trust. Of course platforms are unlikely to change their design so drastically, not w/o push from the outside.

dl.acm.org

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 28mo ago

We're asking crowd workers to do a longish task where they differentiate between items (say articles). We're worried that fatigue might inhibit differentiation. We want to introduce a break where they do sth lightweight and fun. Has anyone tried this? What activities did you use?

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 41mo ago

I recently posted a survey on certain subreddits to capture the perspectives of a certain user population that I could only reach on Reddit. Participants would be entered in a raffle for gift cards. When going through the responses, I identified *89%* of the entries as spams.

Some of the submissions actually looked legit. But the giveaway was that they were 1. either *verbatim* the same as multiple other submissions, or

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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnaz@hci.social

· 43mo ago

@jschmittwdc@econtwitter.net @epi@econtwitter.net Being grossly ignorant about labor laws, the rolled back bills seem to me as rather *prohibiting* child labor in some capacity, not *protecting* it. But if (clandestine) child labor is a sad reality of the society today, wouldn't it do more harm for it to be illegal than acknowledged so that the labor force can actually be granted protections?

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