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Lumen: A Machine Learning Framework to Expose Influence Cues in Text
Hanyu Shi, Mirela Silva, Daniel Capecci +4
Phishing and disinformation are popular social engineering attacks with attackers invariably applying influence cues in texts to make them more appealing to users. We introduce Lum…
Online Binary Models are Promising for Distinguishing Temporally Consistent Computer Usage Profiles
Luiz Giovanini, Fabrício Ceschin, Mirela Silva +11
This paper investigates whether computer usage profiles comprised of process-, network-, mouse-, and keystroke-related events are unique and consistent over time in a naturalistic…
Brazilian Favela Women: How Your Standard Solutions for Technology Abuse Might Actually Harm Them
Mirela Silva, Daniela Oliveira
Brazil is home to over 200M people, the majority of which have access to the Internet. Over 11M Brazilians live in favelas, or informal settlements with no outside government regul…
Facebook Ad Engagement in the Russian Active Measures Campaign of 2016
Mirela Silva, Luiz Giovanini, Juliana Fernandes +2
This paper examines 3,517 Facebook ads created by Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) between June 2015 and August 2017 in its active measures disinformation campaign targeting…
People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation--A Comparison Between COVID and General Narratives on Twitter
Mirela Silva, Fabrício Ceschin, Prakash Shrestha +7
Misinformation entails the dissemination of falsehoods that leads to the slow fracturing of society via decreased trust in democratic processes, institutions, and science. The publ…