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Detecting Social Media Manipulation in Low-Resource Languages
Samar Haider, Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb +3
Social media have been deliberately used for malicious purposes, including political manipulation and disinformation. Most research focuses on high-resource languages. However, mal…
Networks of Power: Analyzing World Leaders Interactions on Social Media
Evgeniia Iakhnis, Adam Badawy
World leaders have been increasingly using social media platforms as a tool for political communication. However, despite the growing research on governmental accounts on social me…
Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior
Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy +1
Recent research brought awareness of the issue of bots on social media and the significant risks of mass manipulation of public opinion in the context of political discussion. In t…
Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms
Ashok Deb, Luca Luceri, Adam Badawy +1
One of the hallmarks of a free and fair society is the ability to conduct a peaceful and seamless transfer of power from one leader to another. Democratically, this is measured in…
Characterizing the 2016 Russian IRA Influence Campaign
Adam Badawy, Aseel Addawood, Kristina Lerman +1
Until recently, social media were seen to promote democratic discourse on social and political issues. However, this powerful communication ecosystem has come under scrutiny for al…
Who Falls for Online Political Manipulation?
Adam Badawy, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
Social media, once hailed as a vehicle for democratization and the promotion of positive social change across the globe, are under attack for becoming a tool of political manipulat…
Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign
Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara, Kristina Lerman
Until recently, social media was seen to promote democratic discourse on social and political issues. However, this powerful communication platform has come under scrutiny for allo…
The Rise of Jihadist Propaganda on Social Networks
Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara
Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS members, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to spread its propaganda and to recruit m…