[UCR_DataScience] REMINDER: Data Science talk by Prof. Kevin M. Esterling, this Friday May 20th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[tsotras at cs.ucr.edu]

Reminder for the Data Science Talk by Kevin Esterling, this Friday May
20th, 12pm at the MRB Seminar Room.
Please register using the link below if you plan to attend.

V. Tsotras
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> The next talk will be on Friday *May 20th, 2022*, from 12:00-1:00pm at
> the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
>
> **** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
>
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-talk-tickets-337527954197
>
>
> The talk will be given by by *Prof. Kevin M. Esterling*, School of
> Public Policy and Department of Political Science, UCR
>
> Title: Deplatforming Right-Wing Extremists on Twitter Following the
> January 6 Insurrection
>
> Abstract:
>
> What happened when Twitter deplatformed 70,000 right-wing extremists
> following the January 6 insurrection? Using a panel of over a half
> million active Twitter users and a sharp regression discontinuity
> design, we test the causal effects of this intervention on the
> circulation of misinformation by those deplatformed, and by users from
> adjacent groups such as misinformation supersharers, QAnon traffickers
> and deplatformed users’ followers. We show that Twitter's intervention
> reduced misinformation on the site substantially by preventing the
> deplatformed users from spreading it. We also show that similar,
> non-deplatformed users exited the platform in response to the
> intervention. The results inform the historical record of the
> insurrection, a momentous event in U.S. history, and show the capacity
> of social media platforms to control public discourse.
>
> * Joint work with Stefan D. McCabe, Diogo Ferrari, Jon Green and David
> M.J. Lazer.
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> Sponsored by the UCR Data Science Center, the purpose of the Data
> Science talks is to foster collaborations between "core" Data Science
> faculty (from CSE/ECE/Stat Departments) and faculty/visitors from other
> sciences that face Data Science problems in their research. These
> informal gatherings are open to interested faculty and graduate
> students. Each meeting will start with a talk describing research
> problems and then a discussion will follow for questions, open problems,
> ideas for possible collaborations etc.
>
> A full list of previous seminars appears at:
> http://datascience.ucr.edu/news
>
> Please forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in
> your lab that may be interested.
>
> Moreover, if you are interested in giving a Data Science related talk,
> please contact me.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> Director, Data Science Major
>