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Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Dominique Geissler, Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs +1
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical evidenc…
The Virality of Hate Speech on Social Media
Abdurahman Maarouf, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
Online hate speech is responsible for violent attacks such as, e.g., the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, thereby posing a significant threat to vulnerable groups and society…
Mechanisms of True and False Rumor Sharing in Social Media: Collective Intelligence or Herd Behavior?
Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
Social media platforms disseminate extensive volumes of online content, including true and, in particular, false rumors. Previous literature has studied the diffusion of offline ru…
Diffusion of Community Fact-Checked Misinformation on Twitter
Chiara Drolsbach, Nicolas Pröllochs
The spread of misinformation on social media is a pressing societal problem that platforms, policymakers, and researchers continue to grapple with. As a countermeasure, recent work…
Finding Qs: Profiling QAnon Supporters on Parler
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
The social media platform "Parler" has emerged into a prominent fringe community where a significant part of the user base are self-reported supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspi…