publications

2026

1. Assessing How Hate, Counterspeech, and Toxicity Affect Hate Group Newcomers

   Daniel Hickey, Daniel MT Fessler, Matheus Schmitz, Paul E Smaldino, Kristina Lerman, Goran Murić, and Keith Burghardt

   Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2026

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2025

1. The peripatetic hater: predicting movement among hate subreddits

   Daniel Hickey, Daniel MT Fessler, Matheus Schmitz, Kristina Lerman, and Keith Burghardt

   In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2025

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2. When AI Tells Their Story: Researchers’ Reactions to AI-Generated Podcasts as a Tool for Communicating Research

   Daniel Hickey, Quan Connie Gu, and Kimiko Ryokai

   In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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3. X Under Musk’s Leadership: Substantial Hate and No Reduction in Inauthentic Activity

   Daniel Hickey, Daniel Fessler, Kristina Lerman, and Keith Burghardt

   PLOS ONE, 2025

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   @article{hickey2024x,
     title = {X Under Musk's Leadership: Substantial Hate and No Reduction in Inauthentic Activity},
     author = {Hickey, Daniel and Fessler, Daniel and Lerman, Kristina and Burghardt, Keith},
     journal = {PLOS ONE},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Do users adopt extremist beliefs from exposure to hate subreddits?

   Matheus Schmitz, Goran Muric, Daniel Hickey, and Keith Burghardt

   Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2024

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   @article{schmitz2024users,
     title = {Do users adopt extremist beliefs from exposure to hate subreddits?},
     author = {Schmitz, Matheus and Muric, Goran and Hickey, Daniel and Burghardt, Keith},
     journal = {Social Network Analysis and Mining},
     volume = {14},
     number = {1},
     pages = {22},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

2023

1. Auditing Elon Musk’s Impact on Hate Speech and Bots

   Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E Smaldino, Goran Muric, and Keith Burghardt

   In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

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   @inproceedings{hickey2023auditing,
     title = {Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots},
     author = {Hickey, Daniel and Schmitz, Matheus and Fessler, Daniel and Smaldino, Paul E and Muric, Goran and Burghardt, Keith},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
     volume = {17},
     pages = {1133--1137},
     year = {2023},
   }