$ whoami
Yilin Gong
PhD Student · Information Science · Luddy School, Indiana University Bloomington
advisor: Prof. Siqi Wu · previously: MS Data Science, University of Chicago
$ cat about.md
I study crowdsourced fact-checking and the governance of online information.
Current focus: a large-scale audit of X's Community Notes · contributor labor, topic coverage, and the effectiveness-fairness paradox.
Tools: Python · R · topic modeling · network analysis · mixed-effects models · LLMs.
Venues: ICWSM · AAAI · IC2S2.
$ ls papers/ --long
[2026]
The Effects of Request Alerts on the Diversity and Visibility of Community Notes
Request Alerts redirect existing contributor labor rather than generating new effort, with a quality-distance trade-off when writers venture outside their topic expertise.
$ contact
yg24@iu.edu
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