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VIKI: Systematic Cross-Platform Profile Inference of Online Users
Ben Treves, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Yue Dong +1
What can we learn about online users by comparing their profiles across different platforms? We use the term profile to represent displayed personality traits, interests, and behav…
Revealing The Secret Power: How Algorithms Can Influence Content Visibility on Twitter/X
Alessandro Galeazzi, Pujan Paudel, Mauro Conti +2
In recent years, the opaque design and the limited public understanding of social networks' recommendation algorithms have raised concerns about potential manipulation of informati…
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn +2
Alas, coordinated hate attacks, or raids, are becoming increasingly common online. In a nutshell, these are perpetrated by a group of aggressors who organize and coordinate operati…
Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to identify social media posts discussing (known) conspiracy theories. We use 189 conspiracy claims collected by…
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide have been expo…