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
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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

2025–2026

University of Graz

Microdegree: KI Microdegree

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