Simplistic Collection and Labeling Practices Limit the Utility of Benchmark Datasets for Twitter Bot Detection

1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2023 • Chris Hays, Zachary Schutzman, Manish Raghavan, Erin Walk, Philipp Zimmer

These tools employ machine learning and often achieve near perfect performance for classification on existing datasets, suggesting bot detection is accurate, reliable and fit for use in downstream applications.

Misinformation Twitter Bot Detection

The Effect of the Rooney Rule on Implicit Bias in the Long Term

1 code implementation • 21 Oct 2020 • L. Elisa Celis, Chris Hays, Anay Mehrotra, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Our main result is that, when the panel is constrained by the Rooney Rule, their implicit bias roughly reduces at a rate that is the inverse of the size of the shortlist--independent of the number of candidates, whereas without the Rooney Rule, the rate is inversely proportional to the number of candidates.