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most citedSpillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning

28 citations · 49 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2024★ 12 cited

The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates

Giuseppe Russo Latona, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tim R. Davidson +2

Journals and conferences worry that peer reviews assisted by artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, large language models (LLMs), may negatively influence the validity and fa…

cs.SI2023

Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit

Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West

Fringe communities promoting conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies have thrived on mainstream platforms, raising questions about the mechanisms driving their growth. Here, w…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

ACTI at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Conspiracy Theory Identification Task

Giuseppe Russo, Niklas Stoehr, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Conspiracy Theory Identication task is a new shared task proposed for the first time at the Evalita 2023. The ACTI challenge, based exclusively on comments published on conspirator…

cs.SI2022★ 5 cited

Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities

Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi +1

The proliferation of radical online communities and their violent offshoots has sparked great societal concern. However, the current practice of banning such communities from mains…

cs.SI2022★ 28 cited

Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning

Giuseppe Russo, Luca Verginer, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +1

Online platforms face pressure to keep their communities civil and respectful. Thus, the bannings of problematic online communities from mainstream platforms like Reddit and Facebo…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Disentangling Active and Passive Cosponsorship in the U.S. Congress

Giuseppe Russo, Christoph Gote, Laurence Brandenberger +2

In the U.S. Congress, legislators can use active and passive cosponsorship to support bills. We show that these two types of cosponsorship are driven by two different motivations:…

cs.CL2020

Control, Generate, Augment: A Scalable Framework for Multi-Attribute Text Generation

Giuseppe Russo, Nora Hollenstein, Claudiu Musat +1

We introduce CGA, a conditional VAE architecture, to control, generate, and augment text. CGA is able to generate natural English sentences controlling multiple semantic and syntac…