Spreading Patterns of Conspiracy Theories on Telegram:
Centralized Dissemination or Decentralized Emergence
IC2S2 2025
22 July 2025
Norrköping, Sweden
Explored how conspiracy narratives propagate on Telegram, contrasting the role of highly influential channels with decentralized community-driven discussions.
Mapping Credibility Based on Telegram User Networks
COMSES 2024
11 December 2024
Istanbul, Turkey
Introduced our user-based approach for inferring website credibility from sharing patterns in conspiracy-prone Telegram communities.
Detecting Conspiracy Theories Online Using Machine Learning
Joint Doctoral Forum on AI
28 November 2024
Graz, Austria
Presented methods from the ORION project for identifying and analyzing conspiracy-related content on social media using AI.
Mit maschinellem Lernen
der digitalen Ausbreitung
von Verschwörungstheorien auf der Spur
Skeptics in the Pub Vienna
16 October 2024
Vienna, Austria
A public outreach talk on our ORION project, explaining how machine learning can help detect conspiracy theories on Telegram and discussing implications for society and democracy.
The Change in the Ontology of Truth:
Fact-Speaking vs. Belief-Speaking
in the 2022 US Midterm Elections
Doc Day Colibri
28 June 2024
Graz, Austria
Explored how politicians use emotional language to appear truthful, comparing factual versus belief-based communication, using NLP and time series analysis.