Rabbit Hole
See what people are claiming online - rumors, conspiracy theories, and questionable content.
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We collect stories that are spreading online - things like conspiracy theories, fake videos, and propaganda - so you can see what's being said and make up your own mind about what's real.
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Agenda-pushing content
Rumor
Unverified theories
Deepfake
AI-generated fakes
Influence Ops
Organized campaigns
Real videos show confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal officers days before his death
Pretti's family has confirmed the authenticity of the footage, which allegedly shows him kicking a vehicle being driven by federal agents.
Obama's immigration policies: 9 claims we've unpacked
Since the start of Trump's first presidential term in 2017, people have pitted his policies on immigration against Obama's.
Was Ilhan Omar's suspected attacker on her 'payroll,' as CBS allegedly reported? Don't be fooled
The claim originated from a social media account known to concoct outright false or misleading headlines.
Did Jalen Hurts establish Renee Good Hope Scholarship Fund?
According to the rumor, the NFL's 2025 Super Bowl MVP donated $300,000 of his own money as a way of kick-starting the special fund.
Congress didn't approve 'kill switch' law allowing government to shut off your car remotely. Here's context
The actual legislation requires automakers to install technology aimed at preventing drunken driving.
Fact-check: Trump officials’ statements about Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents
Fact-check: Trump officials’ Alex Pretti claims vs. video
X posts - Social media users spread AI-manipulated image of Alex Pretti holding gun
An image shows Alex Pretti holding a gun, not a phone, while pinned by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
Kash Patel - Are guns barred at protests, as Kash Patel said? In most states, no
“You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.”
Donald Trump - Critics of Minnesota anti-ICE protests falsely call protesters paid
Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”
Buying Spying: How the commercial surveillance industry works and what can be done about it
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OnePiece: A Large-Scale Distributed Inference System with RDMA for Complex AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Workflows
The rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC) has enabled high-quality creative production across diverse domains, yet existing systems face critical inefficiencies in throughput, resource utilization, and scalability under concurrent workloads. This paper introduces OnePiece, a large-scale distributed inference system with RDMA optimized for multi-stage AIGC workflows. By decomposing pipelines into fine-grained microservices and leveraging one-sided RDMA communication, OnePiece significant...
Compression Tells Intelligence: Visual Coding, Visual Token Technology, and the Unification
"Compression Tells Intelligence", is supported by research in artificial intelligence, particularly concerning (multimodal) large language models (LLMs/MLLMs), where compression efficiency often correlates with improved model performance and capabilities. For compression, classical visual coding based on traditional information theory has developed over decades, achieving great success with numerous international industrial standards widely applied in multimedia (e.g., image/video) systems. E...
Além do Desempenho: Um Estudo da Confiabilidade de Detectores de Deepfakes
Deepfakes are synthetic media generated by artificial intelligence, with positive applications in education and creativity, but also serious negative impacts such as fraud, misinformation, and privacy violations. Although detection techniques have advanced, comprehensive evaluation methods that go beyond classification performance remain lacking. This paper proposes a reliability assessment framework based on four pillars: transferability, robustness, interpretability, and computational effic...
Conformity Dynamics in LLM Multi-Agent Systems: The Roles of Topology and Self-Social Weighting
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly instantiated as interacting agents in multi-agent systems (MAS), where collective decisions emerge through social interaction rather than independent reasoning. A fundamental yet underexplored mechanism in this process is conformity, the tendency of agents to align their judgments with prevailing group opinions. This paper presents a systematic study of how network topology shapes conformity dynamics in LLM-based MAS through a misinformation detec...
Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied across various domains of finance. Since their training data are largely derived from human-authored corpora, LLMs may inherit a range of human biases. Behavioral biases can lead to instability and uncertainty in decision-making, particularly when processing financial information. However, existing research on LLM bias has mainly focused on direct questioning or simplified, general-purpose settings, with limited consideration of the comple...
MisSpans: Fine-Grained False Span Identification in Cross-Domain Fake News
Online misinformation is increasingly pervasive, yet most existing benchmarks and methods evaluate veracity at the level of whole claims or paragraphs using coarse binary labels, obscuring how true and false details often co-exist within single sentences. These simplifications also limit interpretability: global explanations cannot identify which specific segments are misleading or differentiate how a detail is false (e.g., distorted vs. fabricated). To address these gaps, we introduce MisSpa...
ExDR: Explanation-driven Dynamic Retrieval Enhancement for Multimodal Fake News Detection
The rapid spread of multimodal fake news poses a serious societal threat, as its evolving nature and reliance on timely factual details challenge existing detection methods. Dynamic Retrieval-Augmented Generation provides a promising solution by triggering keyword-based retrieval and incorporating external knowledge, thus enabling both efficient and accurate evidence selection. However, it still faces challenges in addressing issues such as redundant retrieval, coarse similarity, and irreleva...
Social Media - Don’t worry: ‘Exploding trees’ aren’t what they sound like
Trees can explode if temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
Simulating and Experimenting with Social Media Mobilization Using LLM Agents
Online social networks have transformed the ways in which political mobilization messages are disseminated, raising new questions about how peer influence operates at scale. Building on the landmark 61-million-person Facebook experiment \citep{bond201261}, we develop an agent-based simulation framework that integrates real U.S. Census demographic distributions, authentic Twitter network topology, and heterogeneous large language model (LLM) agents to examine the effect of mobilization message...
The Role of Employment Flexibility in Enhancing the Competitiveness of Temporary Staffing Service Providers in Poland
This paper examines the role of employment flexibility in enhancing the competitiveness of firms using temporary staffing services, with empirical evidence from Poland. The study focuses on how flexible employment arrangements influence operational efficiency, cost reduction, workforce scalability, market responsiveness, and client satisfaction. A quantitative survey was conducted among managers and owners of Polish enterprises that cooperate with temporary staffing agencies, using purposeful...