We study how humans and machines shape each other.

Programs

What we work on

What if societies and machines are one system?

Selected

Publications

A selection of the lab’s work, kept current from arXiv, Crossref, and ORCID.

• Five Myths About Influence Operations: What 25 Million Tweets Across Seven State Campaigns Reveal

  Ferrara
  Systems2026

• Extending STRIVE to World of Tanks: A Cross-Game Validation of a Socio-behavioral Player Taxonomy

  Bisberg, Chen, Williams, Ferrara
  Foundations of Digital Games2026

• Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X

  Chen, Ye, Tsai, Ferrara, Luceri
  ACM Hypertext2025

• No Free Lunch in Language Model Bias Mitigation? Targeted Bias Reduction Can Exacerbate Unmitigated LLM Biases

  Chand, Baca, Ferrara
  AI2026

• Defeat Devices in AI Systems

  Ferrara
  Future Internet2026

• ECHO: Encoding Communities via High-order Operators

  Ferrara
  Machine Learning with Applications2026

• Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection

  Luceri, Salkar, Balasubramanian, et al.
  ICWSM2026

• Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems

  Gerard, Hanley, Luceri, Ferrara
  ICWSM2026

• Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

  Banayeeanzade, Tak, Bahrani, et al.
  ACL2026

• Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing

  Qiu, Zhou, Ferrara
  Information Sciences2026

• Angry but Accurate: Detecting and Profiling the Counter-Misinformation Ecosystem on Twitter

  Choi, Ferrara
  ACM Hypertext2026

• Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives

  Chen, Bisberg, Williams, et al.
  CHI2026

• Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks

  Gerard, Luceri, Blas, Ferrara
  ACM Web Conference2026

• Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations

  Orlando, Ye, La Gatta, et al.
  ACM Web Conference2026

• Tied In on TikTok: Tie Strength and Emotional Dynamics in Algorithmic Communities

  Bickham, Chu, Yuan, et al.
  ICWSM2026

• GRAVITY: A Framework for Personalized Text Generation via Profile-Grounded Synthetic Preferences

  Dey, Rosa, Zheng, et al.
  EACL2026

• Overstating Attitudes, Ignoring Networks: LLM Biases in Simulating Misinformation Susceptibility

  Choi, Young, Ferrara
  ICWSM2026

• SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

  Xu, Shang, Wang, Ferrara
  Findings of ACL2026

• The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the Erosion of Trust, the Corrosion of Information Verification, and the Demise of Truth

  Ferrara
  Future Internet2026

• Large-scale detection of multilingual coordinated activity on Telegram

  Blas, Saraf, Salkar, et al.
  npj Complexity2025

• Communication Patterns Predict Team Skill in Multiplayer Online Games

  Bisberg, Shaikh, Zeng, et al.
  PACM HCI2025

• Liberals and Conservatives Share Information Differently on Social Media

  Chang, Druckman, Ferrara, Willer
  PNAS Nexus2025

• Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating-Disorder Communities

  Lerman, Chu, Bickham, Luceri, Ferrara
  EPJ Data Science2025