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The University of Tennessee Knoxville: Knoxville, TN, US

2020-08-01 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Information Sciences)
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Benjamin Horne

Education and qualifications (3)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, New York, US

2014-08-01 to 2020-05-01 | Ph.D. in Computer Science (Computer Science)
Education
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Benjamin Horne

Union University: Jackson, TN, US

2010-09-01 to 2014-05-01 | B.S.B.A in Management (School of Business)
Education
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Benjamin Horne

Union University: Jackson, TN, US

2010-08-01 to 2014-05-01 | B.S. in Computer Science (Computer Science)
Education
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Benjamin Horne

Works (47)

Despite Meta Ending Its Third-Party Fact-Checking Program, Most People Still Want Fact-Checkers on Social Media

2025-03-24 | Report
DOI: 10.7290/iii037fjd
Contributors: Benjamin Horne; Matthew J.A. Craig
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Georgia: Frontier Between Russia and the West

2025-03-18 | Report
DOI: 10.7290/iii02xcxd
Contributors: Benjamin Horne; Damian Ruck; Catherine Luther; C. Kuular; Joshua Borycz; Garriy Shteynberg; Brandon Prins; R. Alexander Bentley
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Response to collective threat: Russian invasion unifies Ukrainians across ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic lines

Royal Society Open Science
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.241005
Contributors: Joshua Borycz; Benjamin D. Horne; Catherine Luther; Garriy Shteynberg; Suzie Allard; Brandon Prins; R. Alexander Bentley
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Perceived social influence on vaccination decisions: a COVID-19 case study

SN Social Sciences
2024-07-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s43545-024-00929-2
Contributors: Denise Yewell; R. Alexander Bentley; Benjamin D. Horne
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Ethical and safety considerations in automated fake news detection

Behaviour & Information Technology
2023-12-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2023.2285949
Contributors: Benjamin D. Horne; Dorit Nevo; Susan L. Smith
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Climate complacency reflects cultural values of nations

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100137
Contributors: R. Alexander Bentley; Joshua Borycz; Benjamin D. Horne
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IS DISRUPTION DECREASING, OR IS IT ACCELERATING?

Advances in Complex Systems
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525923500066
Contributors: R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY; SERGI VALVERDE; JOSHUA BORYCZ; BLAI VIDIELLA; BENJAMIN D. HORNE; SALVA DURAN-NEBREDA; MICHAEL J. O’BRIEN
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A Psycho-linguistic Analysis of BitChute

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08078
2022 | Other
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Benjamin Horne

Characterizing YouTube and BitChute Content and Mobilizers During U.S. Election Fraud Discussions on Twitter

14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (WebSci)
2022 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

How Topic Novelty Impacts the Effectiveness of News Veracity Interventions

Communications of the ACM
2022 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Local News Online and COVID in the U.S.: Relationships among Coverage, Cases, Deaths, and Audience

AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2022 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Monitoring event-driven dynamics on Twitter: a case study in Belarus

Springer Nature Social Sciences (SNSS)
2022 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

NELA-GT-2021: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05659
2022 | Other
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Benjamin Horne

NELA-Local: A Dataset of U.S. Local News Articles for the Study of County-level News Ecosystems

AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2022 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

The MeLa BitChute Dataset

AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2022 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

The Reasoning Behind Fake News Assessments: A Linguistic Analysis

AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
2022 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Monitoring event-driven dynamics on Twitter: a case study in Belarus

SN Social Sciences
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s43545-022-00330-x
Contributors: Natalie M. Rice; Benjamin D. Horne; Catherine A. Luther; Joshua D. Borycz; Suzie L. Allard; Damian J. Ruck; Michael Fitzgerald; Oleg Manaev; Brandon C. Prins; Maureen Taylor et al.
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From Tweeting About News to Creating News Around Tweets: Characterizing Tweets Embedded in News Articles

MEDIATE 2021 at ICWSM
2021 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

NELA-GT-2020: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04567
2021 | Other
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Benjamin Horne

Partisanship over security: Public narratives via Twitter on Foreign Interferences in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections

First Monday
2021 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Tell Me Who Your Friends Are: Using Content Sharing Behavior for News Source Veracity Detection

MEDIATE 2021 at ICWSM
2021 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Do All Good Actors Look The Same? Exploring News Veracity Detection Across The US and The UK

arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01211
2020 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Effects of priming messages to decrease negativity in online learning environments.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
2020 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

NELA-GT-2019: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08444
2020 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Robust News Veracity Detection

2020 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Benjamin Horne

What is BitChute? Characterizing the" Free Speech''Alternative to YouTube

Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
2020 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Tailoring heuristics and timing AI interventions for supporting news veracity assessments

Computers in Human Behavior Reports
2020-12-12 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Different spirals of sameness: A study of content sharing in mainstream and alternative media

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2019 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

NELA-GT-2018: A large multi-labelled news dataset for the study of misinformation in news articles

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2019 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Rating reliability and bias in news articles: Does ai assistance help everyone?

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2019 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Recognizing Experts on Social Media: A Heuristics-Based Approach

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems
2019 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Robust fake news detection over time and attack

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
2019 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Trustworthy misinformation mitigation with soft information nudging

2019 First IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA)
2019 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Uncertainty-based false information propagation in social networks

ACM Transactions on Social Computing
2019 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

An Exploration of Unreliable News Classification in Brazil and The US

arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02875
2018 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

An exploration of verbatim content republishing by news producers

arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05939
2018 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Assessing the news landscape: A multi-module toolkit for evaluating the credibility of news

Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018
2018 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Effects of Priming on Online Discussion Behavior

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
2018 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Models for Predicting Community-Specific Interest in News Articles

MILCOM 2018-2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
2018 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Sampling the news producers: A large news and feature data set for the study of the complex media landscape

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2018 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

From sports to science: Using basketball analytics to broaden the appeal of math and science among youth

MIT-Sloan Sport. Anal. Conf.
2017 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Identifying the social signals that drive online discussions: A case study of Reddit communities

2017 26th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
2017 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

The impact of crowds on news engagement: A reddit case study

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2017 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

This just in: Fake news packs a lot in title, uses simpler, repetitive content in text body, more similar to satire than real news

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2017 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Expertise in social networks: How do experts differ from other users?

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2016 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Impact of message sorting on access to novel information in networks

2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
2016 | Conference paper
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Benjamin Horne

Destroying by creating: exploring the creative destruction of 3D printing through intellectual property

Accessed April
2013 | Journal article
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Benjamin Horne

Peer review (9 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for Behaviour & information technology. (3)
Review activity for Digital journalism. (1)
Review activity for EPJ data science. (3)
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