9:00 Welcome

9:15 Keynote: Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Australia, “Mapping Emotions on Social Media”
Session Chair: Adriana Imanitchi

10:15 Break

10:45 Session 1: Social Sensing during the Pandemic
Session Chair: Kalthleen McKeown

• Mapping Moral Valence of Tweets Following the Killing of George Floyd
  Hunter Priniski, Negar Mokhberian, Bahareh Harandizadeh, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, Hongjing Lu and Jeff Brantingham

• Analyzing COVID-19 Tweets with Transformer-based Language Models
  Philip Feldman, Sim Tiwari, Charissa Cheah, James Foulds and Shimei Pan

• A Trust-Motivated Framework for Assessing Governments Engagement with Citizens on Social Media
  Ilaria Bonavita and Emily Maitland

Noon Lunch

1:00 Session 2: Misinformation and Disinformation
Session Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher

• Evidence based Automatic Fact-Checking for Climate Change Misinformation
  Gengyu Wang, Lawrence Chillrud and Kathleen McKeown

• The Polarized Web of the Voter Fraud Claims in the 2020 US Presidential Election
  Sreeja Sreekantan Nair and Adriana Iamnitchi

• Multi-platform Information Operations: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube against the White Helmets
  Kin Wai Ng, Sameera Horawalavithana and Adriana Iamnitchi

2:15 Session 3: Short Papers
Session Chair: George Mohler

• The Curse of Asymmetric Polarization Dynamics in the Age of Information Overload
  Chao Xu, Jinyang Li, Dachun Sun, Ruijie Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jesse Graham and Boleslaw Szymanski

• Understanding Identity Signalling in Persuasive Online Text
  Melanie Subbiah and Kathleen McKeown

• Exploring New Methods for Identifying False Information and the Intent Behind It on Social Media: COVID-19 Tweets
  Lin Ai, Run Chen, Ziwei Gong, Julia Guo, Shayan Hooshmand, Zixiaofan Yang and Julia Hirschberg

2:45 Break

3:15 Panel: Resilience and Vulnerability to Information Influence

4:30 Wrap-up and Future Directions

5:00 Adjourn