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Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos
Annie Y. Chen, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler +2
Do online platforms facilitate the consumption of potentially harmful content? Using paired behavioral and survey data provided by participants recruited from a representative samp…
Engagement Outweighs Exposure to Partisan and Unreliable News within Google Search
Ronald E. Robertson, Jon Green, Damian J. Ruck +3
If popular online platforms systematically expose their users to partisan and unreliable news, they could potentially contribute to societal issues like rising political polarizati…
Multi-scale Dynamics in a Massive Online Social Network
Xiaohan Zhao, Alessandra Sala, Christo Wilson +4
Data confidentiality policies at major social network providers have severely limited researchers' access to large-scale datasets. The biggest impact has been on the study of netwo…
Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection
Gang Wang, Manish Mohanlal, Christo Wilson +4
As popular tools for spreading spam and malware, Sybils (or fake accounts) pose a serious threat to online communities such as Online Social Networks (OSNs). Today, sophisticated a…
Serf and Turf: Crowdturfing for Fun and Profit
Gang Wang, Christo Wilson, Xiaohan Zhao +4
Popular Internet services in recent years have shown that remarkable things can be achieved by harnessing the power of the masses using crowd-sourcing systems. However, crowd-sourc…
Uncovering Social Network Sybils in the Wild
Zhi Yang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang +3
Sybil accounts are fake identities created to unfairly increase the power or resources of a single malicious user. Researchers have long known about the existence of Sybil accounts…