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The Big Ban Theory: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Dataset of Online Content Moderation Actions
Aldo Cerulli, Lorenzo Cima, Benedetta Tessa +2
Online platforms rely on moderation interventions to curb harmful behavior such as hate speech, toxicity, and the spread of mis- and disinformation. Yet research on the effects and…
From Toxicity to Conformity: Adaptive user behavior to social norms in Telegram communities
Lorenzo Alvisi, Victoria Popa, Guglielmo Cola +2
Toxic and antisocial user behavior on social media platforms has received considerable scholarly attention due to its detrimental effects on society. This study takes a holistic pe…
Emoji Reactions on Telegram: Unreliable Indicators of Emotional Resonance
Serena Tardelli, Lorenzo Alvisi, Lorenzo Cima +2
Emoji reactions are a frequently used feature of messaging platforms, yet their communicative role remains understudied. Prior work on emojis has focused predominantly on in-text u…
Mapping the Italian Telegram Ecosystem: Communities, Toxicity, and Hate Speech
Lorenzo Alvisi, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Telegram has become a major space for political discourse and alternative media. However, its lack of moderation allows misinformation, extremism, and toxicity to spread. While pri…
Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram Conspiracy Spheres through Message Forwarding
Lorenzo Alvisi, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Telegram has grown into a significant platform for news and information sharing, favored for its anonymity and minimal moderation. This openness, however, makes it vulnerable to mi…
The Anatomy of Conspirators: Unveiling Traits using a Comprehensive Twitter Dataset
Margherita Gambini, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
The discourse around conspiracy theories is currently thriving amidst the rampant misinformation in online environments. Research in this field has been focused on detecting conspi…
Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Online Behavior: Stability, Archetypes, and Influence
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi +4
Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online beh…
Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti +2
Coordinated online behaviors are an essential part of information and influence operations, as they allow a more effective disinformation's spread. Most studies on coordinated beha…
Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti +3
Cryptocurrencies represent one of the most attractive markets for financial speculation. As a consequence, they have attracted unprecedented attention on social media. Besides genu…
Cashtag piggybacking: uncovering spam and bot activity in stock microblogs on Twitter
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli +2
Microblogs are increasingly exploited for predicting prices and traded volumes of stocks in financial markets. However, it has been demonstrated that much of the content shared in…