Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm
@dsrc.bsky.social
Research collaboratory at HNU, Germany, studying digital tech abuse to create safer online spaces. Views are our own, not the university’s.
“Who controls social media, controls reality.”
Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4
📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0
Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4
📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“Who controls social media, controls reality.”
Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4
📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0
Our colleague Marten Risius gave a keynote at #DimensionDigitalisierung in Berlin on our Trust & Safety research at DSRC – from troll farms to AI-generated influencers with fabricated personas. 1/4
📸 Foto: Phil Dera / CC BY 4.0
In addition to his published paper "Mitigating the Effects of Harmful Social Media Content through Attitude Inoculation," our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social has shared a video presentation of his work.
Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...
Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In addition to his published paper "Mitigating the Effects of Harmful Social Media Content through Attitude Inoculation," our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social has shared a video presentation of his work.
Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...
Watch the full presentation and read the paper here: aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_...
Our colleagues Christopher David and @risius.bsky.social have published an insight on how conflicting views on the role of women are contributing to ideological fractures within the „murder capital of the internet“, Stormfront. Check it out on @gnetresearch.bsky.social
As part of GNET’s series aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Christopher David & @risius.bsky.social examine how Stormfront’s ideological unity is eroding as members increasingly diverge in their conceptualisations of white women.
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Fractures on the (Storm-)Front: Contesting the Role of Women in White Supremacy - GNET
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December 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Our colleagues Christopher David and @risius.bsky.social have published an insight on how conflicting views on the role of women are contributing to ideological fractures within the „murder capital of the internet“, Stormfront. Check it out on @gnetresearch.bsky.social
Detoxifying hate in social media posts sounds promising, but is the harm really gone?
Our colleague @risius.bsky.social co-authored a paper on evaluating detoxification with an LLM-based agentic framework. 1/7
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Our colleague @risius.bsky.social co-authored a paper on evaluating detoxification with an LLM-based agentic framework. 1/7
aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcont...
aisel.aisnet.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Detoxifying hate in social media posts sounds promising, but is the harm really gone?
Our colleague @risius.bsky.social co-authored a paper on evaluating detoxification with an LLM-based agentic framework. 1/7
aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcont...
Our colleague @risius.bsky.social co-authored a paper on evaluating detoxification with an LLM-based agentic framework. 1/7
aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcont...
Do multiple perspectives improve hate speech detection?
Presented at #ACMMM25 by our colleague @riekers.bsky.social, our new framework "MAXplain" introduces a multi-agent approach to multimodal hate speech detection. 1/6
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Presented at #ACMMM25 by our colleague @riekers.bsky.social, our new framework "MAXplain" introduces a multi-agent approach to multimodal hate speech detection. 1/6
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
MAXplain: A Multi-Agent System for Interactive Multimodal Hate Speech Detection | Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia
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November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Do multiple perspectives improve hate speech detection?
Presented at #ACMMM25 by our colleague @riekers.bsky.social, our new framework "MAXplain" introduces a multi-agent approach to multimodal hate speech detection. 1/6
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Presented at #ACMMM25 by our colleague @riekers.bsky.social, our new framework "MAXplain" introduces a multi-agent approach to multimodal hate speech detection. 1/6
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
What if we could counter authoritarian and anti-democratic attitudes before they take root?
Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets.
aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_... 1/6
Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets.
aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_... 1/6
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) - ICIS 2025 Proceedings: Mitigating the Effects of Harmful Social Media Content through Attitude Inoculation
Online social media platforms enable the swift dissemination of harmful content, such as hate speech, misinformation, and extremist propaganda, that threatens democratic values and fosters political c...
aisel.aisnet.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What if we could counter authoritarian and anti-democratic attitudes before they take root?
Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets.
aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_... 1/6
Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets.
aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_... 1/6
Are you in an echo chamber or stuck in your own information cocoon?
In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.
Read the thread for details.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904
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In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.
Read the thread for details.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904
1/6
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Are you in an echo chamber or stuck in your own information cocoon?
In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.
Read the thread for details.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904
1/6
In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.
Read the thread for details.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904
1/6
Hello Bluesky! We are a research collaboratory at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany. 1/3
October 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hello Bluesky! We are a research collaboratory at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany. 1/3