Giandomenico Di Domenico

Thanks for having me, David.

Yeah.

I mean, we used to think that, you know, misinformation is something fringe, you know, just tin hat people would just, you know, believe in fringe and strange conspiracies.

But actually, it's more pervasive than we think.

I remember one example that I studied in my recent paper, that there was this influencer that shared a picture of Louis Vuitton, the luxury brand,

And then the caption said, did you know that Louis Vuitton funded human shoes in the 19th century?

So, you know, just to make people very, very upset.

So it is really varied.

Misinformation can really be anything.

I remember this other bit where a gaming influencer just vaped smoke into a...

a console, it was a PlayStation.

So kind of faking malfunctioning and it was fake.

So that's misinformation as well.

It's super pervasive and it really can be about everything.

So it's not just about political issues.

It's not just about social issues, but can be about brands.

It can be about health, which is kind of the most dangerous probably.

But yeah, it's everything.

Yeah, that's all of that.

So we basically used an API from Google that measures toxicity in speech.