Detect Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on a National News Platform
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a co-engagement graph from news comment data, detect coordinated behavior, and score users 0-100 to earn your verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The platform (subscription + ad-funded, EU media regulated, around 110 journalists) is taking regulatory and reputational heat for letting top comments shape news perception.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Identify coordinated inauthentic users in a 1.8M-comment dataset using network science and ship a scoring layer the trust-and-safety team will act on.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Construct a co-engagement graph from raw event data
- Apply community detection on a 100k+ node graph
- Combine structural and semantic features for behavior scoring
- Translate a network model into operational moderation policy
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Network Science
Apply network science to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Community Detection
Apply community detection to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Graph Analysis
Apply graph analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Computational Social Science
Apply computational social science to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Data Analysis
Analyze real datasets, build models, and communicate findings that drive decisions.
- Trust And Safety
Apply trust and safety to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Product Manager
Product managers who can read a network model and write the moderation policy that goes with it become the trusted PM for integrity teams.
This challenge sharpens
- computational-social-science
- trust-and-safety
- data-analysis