Kevin Yang
@yang3kc.bsky.social
Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Reposted by Kevin Yang
🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM
and based in a low- or middle-income country?
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ICWSM 2026: Submit
ICWSM 2026: Submit
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November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM
and based in a low- or middle-income country?
💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026!
📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit....
🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...
and based in a low- or middle-income country?
💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026!
📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit....
🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...
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𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary.
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary.
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details!
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
July 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details!
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Kevin Yang
Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...
July 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...
Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...
Claude Code is secretly an excellent data analysis agent
How I vide code papers with it
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...
Great report on the worldwide news landscape 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
Digital News Report 2025
The most comprehensive study of news consumption, covering 48 markets around the world.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Great report on the worldwide news landscape 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt
Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25
June 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt
Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25
June 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25
A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.
June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.
Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={qu... . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.
Google Search
google.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={qu... . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.
Reposted by Kevin Yang
The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
May 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
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🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
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May 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
1/3
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877
1/3
We will be at #WebSci2025 next Tuesday to give a thorough introduction to NIO. Come and check it out if you are interested!
@pranavgoel.bsky.social & Kaicheng Yang
May 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We will be at #WebSci2025 next Tuesday to give a thorough introduction to NIO. Come and check it out if you are interested!
I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes:
- Adopt the new Responses API.
- Better handling of the structured output.
Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_...
Please star if you find it useful~
- Adopt the new Responses API.
- Better handling of the structured output.
Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_...
Please star if you find it useful~
GitHub - yang3kc/llm_for_css: Guide on how to use LLMs for computational social science research
Guide on how to use LLMs for computational social science research - yang3kc/llm_for_css
github.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes:
- Adopt the new Responses API.
- Better handling of the structured output.
Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_...
Please star if you find it useful~
- Adopt the new Responses API.
- Better handling of the structured output.
Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_...
Please star if you find it useful~
Reposted by Kevin Yang
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
Reposted by Kevin Yang
Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth.
📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902
💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris...
💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...
📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902
💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris...
💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...
April 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth.
📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902
💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris...
💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...
📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902
💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris...
💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...
Reposted by Kevin Yang
🚨Extended CySoc deadline is tomorrow! 🚨
Get your submissions in while you still can and join us at @icwsm.bsky.social!
Get your submissions in while you still can and join us at @icwsm.bsky.social!
CySoc 2025 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats
cy-soc.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨Extended CySoc deadline is tomorrow! 🚨
Get your submissions in while you still can and join us at @icwsm.bsky.social!
Get your submissions in while you still can and join us at @icwsm.bsky.social!
Reposted by Kevin Yang
📣 Deadline is approaching fast, last two days.. We are looking forward to your submissions to #CySoc2025 Workshop and sharing it with our research community!
📅 Deadline: April 10, AoE
#CyberSocialThreats #AIforSocialGood #ICWSM2025
📅 Deadline: April 10, AoE
#CyberSocialThreats #AIforSocialGood #ICWSM2025
📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation.
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
April 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
📣 Deadline is approaching fast, last two days.. We are looking forward to your submissions to #CySoc2025 Workshop and sharing it with our research community!
📅 Deadline: April 10, AoE
#CyberSocialThreats #AIforSocialGood #ICWSM2025
📅 Deadline: April 10, AoE
#CyberSocialThreats #AIforSocialGood #ICWSM2025
Reposted by Kevin Yang
📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation.
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation.
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
Reposted by Kevin Yang
If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.
April 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.
Reposted by Kevin Yang
🚨🚨Due to multiple requests, the deadline for the #CySoc workshop has been extended until April 10!🚨🚨
Make sure to get your submissions in!
Make sure to get your submissions in!
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨🚨Due to multiple requests, the deadline for the #CySoc workshop has been extended until April 10!🚨🚨
Make sure to get your submissions in!
Make sure to get your submissions in!