Kirill Solovev

Researcher and Data Scientist at the IDea_Lab

Portrait of Kirill Solovev

About Me

I am a researcher at the IDea_Lab of the University of Graz, working on the VALPOP project. My work focuses on analyzing social media and public discourse, with a strong interest in hate speech, moralized language, and misinformation patterns.

Research Interests:

Multimodal Research

Computational Social Science

Misinformation and Hate Speech

NLP, LLMs, and Computer Vision

Social Media Analysis

Professional CV Academic CV

Publications

2025

References to unbiased sources increase the helpfulness of community fact-checks

Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

Scientific Reports 15 (1), 25749

2024

Community notes increase trust in fact-checking on social media

Chiara Drolsbach, Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

PNAS Nexus 3 (7), pgae217

Community Notes vs. Snoping: How the Crowd Selects Fact-Checking Targets on Social Media

Moritz Pilarski, Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference ICWSM 2024, 18, 1262-1275

2023

Moralized language predicts hate speech on social media

Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

PNAS Nexus 2 (1), pgac281

2022

Moral emotions shape the virality of COVID-19 misinformation on social media

Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 3706-3717

Hate speech in the political discourse on social media: Disparities across parties, gender, and ethnicity

Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 3656-3661

2021

Integrating Floor Plans into Hedonic Models for Rent Price Appraisal

Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2021, 2838-2847

Teaching Experience

2020–2025

University of Giessen

Course: Data Science For Management

Master Seminar: Text Mining

Master Seminar: Data Science

Bachelor Seminar: Data Science

Colloquium: Bachelor and Master Theses

2019–2020

University of Freiburg

Tutorial: Introduction to Data Science

Miscellaneous

2024

Poster Presenter

WebSci24, Stuttgart, Germany

Won the Best Poster award

2022

Poster Presenter

Machine Learning Summer School