CASOS in the News

CASOS News 2020

Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS reasearch about COVID and Social media in the Fall/Winter issue of CMU's School of Computer Science Magazine, The Link. See the full issue and read the article here.
Read Director Kathleen M. Carley's Essay on Disinformation entitled "Social influence campaigns in the cyber information environment". Read full essay here.

Article "Online misinformation is rampant. Four tips on stopping it" features comments from our Director Kathleen M. Carley and the research being done at the CASOS and IDeaS Centers. Read full article here.
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybresecurity (IDeaS) Co-lead by Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will have it's first Institute and Conference November 18th-20th, Social-Cybersecurity in Times of Crisis and Change. Find more information here.

The 2020 SBP-BRiMS Conference will be taking place virtually October 18-21. Find more information here.
Director Kathleen M. Carley will be joining a panel and giving a talk "Social Influence and Disinformation in Cyberspace" at The 3rd Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium Tuesday, October 20, 2020. More info...
The IDeaS Center co-directed by Kathleen M. Carley collaborated with Duquesne University for the Inaugural Grefenstette Symposium: Disinformation, Misinformation and Technology: New Ethical Challenges and Solutions on October 7th. Learn more about the symposium here.
The Block Center for Technology and Society and IDeaS Center will co-presented Combatting Disinformation One Month Before the Election: What State and Local Policy Makers Can Do with panelists Kathleen Carley and Yonatan Bisk on Tuesday, October 6th. See the video here.

Director Kathleen M. Carley sits down to talk to Dr. Nick van Terheyden on "The Incrementalist" to discuss social media and misinformation online. Full discussion here.

July 2020
Through guided research opportunities, students are exploring issues related to COVID-19 and other topics at CMU this summer. Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will lead a project course. Find more information here.

Kathleen M. Carley sits down with Julie Rose of "Top of Mind" on BYU Radio June 10th to discuss how Twitter bots are responsible for most tweets about COVID-19. Discussion is here.
Wisconsin Public Radio conversation Kathleen M. Carley about how bots pushed to reopen the economy,wpr.org.
Center research is discussed in the article by Maya Shwayder in Digital Trends, "Researchers: Bots are spreading conspiracy theories about #blacklivesmatter". Read the full article here.
Director Kathleen M. Carley from Carnegie Mellon University speaks with ABC7's Kristen Sze about its use and power. Read the article here.
CASOS Summer Institute is virtual this year! Visit the Summer Institute webpage for additional details and updates.

Kathleen M. Carley and M. Anthony Mills (R Street Institute) pen the article in The Fulcrum, "Our duty as citizens includes combatting pandemic's digital disinformation", read article here.
MIT Technology Review Article, "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots" discusses the research of Kathleen M. Carley and the IDeaS Center. Read full article here.
NPR interviews Kathleen M. Carley for their article, "Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots". Read article here.
IDeaS Center co-director Kathleen M. Carley was named in Guide2Research's 2020 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. Prof. Carley ranked 286 in the world ranking and 189 in United States. The full world ranking is available here; the full ranking for United States is available here.
Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the USA Today Article by Jessica Guynn.

VICE News interviews director Kathleen M. Carley about bots and misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Read the article here.
Action News Jacksonville features CASOS Center Research directed by Kathleen M. Carley in the article "Virus misinformation flourishes in online protest groups" about the spread of misinformation on Facebook with protest groups.
Director Kathleen M. Carley contributes to PBS News Hour's Courtney Vinopal article about misinformation and the pandemic, "Why uncertainty about coronavirus breeds opportunity for misinformation"
"There Is 'Way, Way More' Disinformation Related To Coronavirus Compared To Other Events" by Wesa.fm's Liz Reid highlights findings by Director Kathleen M. Carley and CASOS Center on misinformation about COVID-19.
Director Kathleen M. Carley joins CASOS graduate student Geoff Dobson on the podcast The COVID-19 Experience. Listen to this and other episodes here.

Director Kathleen M. Carley is a panelist for the R Street Institute Panel Combatting Digital Disinformation During a Global Pandemic streamed live on March 19, 2020.
Article "Investing in Social Cybersecurity" by CASOS graduate student David Beskow and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 16-19.
Article "BEND: A Framework foor Social Cybersecurity" by Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 20-25.
Article "Identifying Misinformation Campaigns" by CASOS graduate student Iain Cruikshank and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 36-37.
Popular Science article "Yes, the new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing SARS-CoV-2 is changing at the rate scientists would expect for a coronavirus"Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS Center research on Disinformation about Coronavirus Mutations.
Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the USA Today Article by Jessica Guynn.
CASOS researchers study disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic, find out more here.
Researchers at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon develop a new model to track epidemics. Article by John Sullivan can be found here.

Director Kathleen M. Carley presents CASOS research at the NAS Surprise Resulting from Convergence Workshop in Washington, DC February 6th and 7th.
Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in panel in Oslo Norway Hacking Democracy: Influence Operations in the Digital Age hosted by Norwegian Defence Research Establishment on February 13th.
Director Kathleen M. Carley briefs the hill on CASOS research February 27th in Washington, DC.