Dorian Quelle

PhD Candidate in Quantitative Network Science at the University of Zurich (DM3L) and a member of the Digital Society Initiative. Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Senior AI Security & Threat Intelligence Researcher at Pattrn AI.

The same list is in my CV and on Google Scholar.

Peer-reviewed

  1. Language mutations and the persistence of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media
    Cheng, C.Y., Quelle, D., Hale, S.A. (2026). Computers in Human Behavior, 109137. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2026.109137
  2. Bluesky: network topology, polarization, and algorithmic curation
    Quelle, D., Bovet, A. (2025). PLoS ONE, 20(2), e0318034. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0318034
  3. Lost in translation: using global fact-checks to measure multilingual misinformation prevalence, spread, and evolution
    Quelle, D., Cheng, C.Y., Bovet, A., Hale, S.A. (2025). EPJ Data Science, 14(1), 22. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00520-6
  4. Effective yet ephemeral propaganda defense: there needs to be more than one-shot inoculation to enhance critical thinking
    Hoferer, N., Sprenkamp, K., Quelle, D.C., Jones, D.G., Katashinskaya, Z., Bovet, A., et al. (2025). Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi:10.1145/3706599.3720125
  5. Strategic storytelling: Russian state-backed media coverage of the Ukraine War
    Bradshaw, S., Elswah, M., Haque, M., Quelle, D. (2024). International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36(3), edae028. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edae028
  6. The perils and promises of fact-checking with large language models
    Quelle, D., Bovet, A. (2024). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7, 1341697. doi:10.3389/frai.2024.1341697

Preprints

  1. InfoOps Bench: a live information operations safety benchmark
    Quelle, D., Neudert, L.-M., Bright, J., Gallacher, J. (2026). arXiv:2607.28503
  2. Anatomy of politically homogeneous spaces: how and why even they fragment
    Salloum, A., Quelle, D., Iannucci, L., Pünder, T., Bovet, A., Kivelä, M. (2026). arXiv:2506.03443
  3. Simple contagion drives population-scale platform migration
    Quelle, D., Denker, F., Garg, P., Bovet, A. (2025). arXiv:2505.24801

Work in progress

  1. Affective polarization on Bluesky
    Quelle, D., Bovet, A. (2026). Work in progress.
  2. Recovering latent beliefs from cross-topic social media posts
    Quelle, D., Hale, S.A., et al. (2026). Work in progress.