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YTCommentVerse: A Multi-Category Multi-Lingual YouTube Comment Corpus
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Biswadeep Khan
In this paper, we introduce YTCommentVerse, a large-scale multilingual and multi-category dataset of YouTube comments. It contains over 32 million comments from 178,000 videos cont…
Half-life of Youtube News Videos: Diffusion Dynamics and Predictive Factors
Anahit Sargsyan, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Juergen Pfeffer
Consumption of YouTube news videos significantly shapes public opinion and political narratives. While prior works have studied the longitudinal dissemination dynamics of YouTube N…
YT-30M: A multi-lingual multi-category dataset of YouTube comments
Hridoy Sankar Dutta
This paper introduces two large-scale multilingual comment datasets, YT-30M (and YT-100K) from YouTube. The analysis in this paper is performed on a smaller sample (YT-100K) of YT-…
Weakening the Inner Strength: Spotting Core Collusive Users in YouTube Blackmarket Network
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Social reputation (e.g., likes, comments, shares, etc.) on YouTube is the primary tenet to popularize channels/videos. However, the organic way to improve social reputation is tedi…
DECIFE: Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Following Services on Twitter
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Kartik Aggarwal, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The popularity of Twitter has fostered the emergence of various fraudulent user activities - one such activity is to artificially bolster the social reputation of Twitter profiles…
ABOME: A Multi-platform Data Repository of Artificially Boosted Online Media Entities
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Udit Arora, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The rise of online media has incentivized users to adopt various unethical and artificial ways of gaining social growth to boost their credibility within a short time period. In th…
Blackmarket-driven Collusion on Online Media: A Survey
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Online media platforms have enabled users to connect with individuals, organizations, and share their thoughts. Other than connectivity, these platforms also serve multiple purpose…
Detecting and analyzing collusive entities on YouTube
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Mayank Jobanputra, Himani Negi +1
In this work, we provide an in-depth analysis of collusive entities on YouTube fostered by various blackmarket services. Following this, we propose models to detect three types of…
Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi +1
Twitter has increasingly become a popular platform to share news and user opinion. A tweet is considered to be important if it receives high number of affirmative reactions from ot…