Causality Remembers: Teaching Social Media Defenses to Learn from the Past
Moderation teams do not usually lose because they see nothing. They lose because they see too much: thousands of accounts posting near the same topic, near the same time, with enough similarity to look suspicious and enough difference to remain deniable. Some are campaign assets. Some are enthusiastic humans. Some are bots. Some are people who simply saw the same trending story and behaved like everyone else, which is annoying for both democracy and data science. ...