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20202025
most citedClandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy

15 citations · 40 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

FlowSeries: Anomaly Detection in Financial Transaction Flows

Arthur Capozzi, Salvatore Vilella, Dario Moncalvo +4

In recent years, the digitization and automation of anti-financial crime (AFC) investigative processes have faced significant challenges, particularly the need for interpretability…

cs.CY2023★ 7 cited

Narratives of War: Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter

Yelena Mejova, Arthur Capozzi, Corrado Monti +1

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen an intensification in the use of social media by governmental actors in cyber warfare. Wartime communication via memes has been a succ…

cs.SI2023★ 13 cited

The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections

Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +2

Social media has been an important tool in the expansion of the populist message, and it is thought to have contributed to the electoral success of populist parties in the past dec…

cs.SI2022★ 3 cited

Analyzing and visualizing polarization and balance with signed networks: the U.S. Congress case study

Arthur Capozzi, Alfonso Semeraro, Giancarlo Ruffo

Signed networks and balance theory provide a natural setting for real-world scenarios that show polarization dynamics, positive/negative relationships, and political partisanship.…

cs.SI2021★ 15 cited

Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy

Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +3

Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step in ensuring accountability and transparency of political processes. To that end, we use the Facebook Ads Lib…

cs.CY2020

Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy

Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +3

Targeted online advertising is on the forefront of political communication, allowing hyper-local advertising campaigns around elections and issues. In this study, we employ a new r…