3 papers
cs.CY2020
"Is it a Qoincidence?": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat
Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini +2
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users seeking and sharing ideas fueling suspicion of mainstream news and conspiracy theories. Among these, the QAnon conspiracy…
cs.SI2020
A Privacy-Preserving Architecture for the Protection of Adolescents in Online Social Networks
Markos Charalambous, Petros Papagiannis, Antonis Papasavva +8
Online social networks (OSN) constitute an integral part of people's every day social activity. Specifically, mainstream OSNs such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are especially…
cs.CY2020
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3M threads and 134.5M posts from the Politically Incorrect board (/pol/) of the imageboard forum 4chan, posted over a period of almost 3.5…