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November 13, 2025
SITT Paper Presented at SENTIRE 2025 Workshop at ICDM
Our paper “Unraveling SITT: Social Influence Technique Taxonomy and Detection with LLMs” was presented at the SENTIRE 2025 workshop (Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction) held during the 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in Washington DC, USA. This milestone marks the official publication of our comprehensive framework for detecting social influence techniques in text.
November 4, 2025
Looking for Annotators: Help Us Protect Teenagers from Manipulation
ImpactAI Lab is recruiting annotators for our social influence detection project. We’re building a dataset to train AI models that can identify manipulation techniques in online content targeting young people, and built educational tools. If you’re interested in contributing to youth digital safety research, get in touch with our team.
May 29, 2025
SITT Paper Published: New Taxonomy for Social Influence Detection
Our research team has published “Unraveling SITT: Social Influence Technique Taxonomy and Detection with LLMs” on arXiv. The paper introduces a comprehensive framework of 58 empirically grounded social influence techniques organized into nine categories, designed to detect subtle forms of manipulation in textual content.