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Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Federating Governance: How Community Rules Scale with Mastodon Instances
Rasika Muralidharan, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Bao Tran Truong
The rise of decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky highlights the challenge of scaling self-governance and moderation. As communities grow, they face new is…
PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media
Zoher Kachwala, Bao Tran Truong, Rasika Muralidharan +3
Social media are shifting towards pluralism -- community-governed platforms where groups define their own norms. What violates rules in one community may be perfectly acceptable in…
Community Notes are Vulnerable to Rater Bias and Manipulation
Bao Tran Truong, Siqi Wu, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media platforms increasingly rely on crowdsourced moderation systems like Community Notes to combat misinformation at scale. However, these systems face challenges from rate…
Identifying Constructive Conflict in Online Discussions through Controversial yet Toxicity Resilient Posts
Ozgur Can Seckin, Bao Tran Truong, Alessandro Flammini +1
Bridging content that brings together individuals with opposing viewpoints on social media remains elusive, overshadowed by echo chambers and toxic exchanges. We propose that algor…
The Rise of Bluesky
Ozgur Can Seckin, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Bao Tran Truong +5
This study investigates the rapid growth and evolving network structure of Bluesky from August 2023 to February 2025. Through multiple waves of user migrations, the platform has re…
Audit of takedown delays across social media reveals failure to reduce exposure to illegal content
Bao Tran Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Gianluca Nogara +7
Illegal content on social media poses significant societal harm and necessitates timely removal. However, the impact of the speed of content removal on prevalence, reach, and expos…
A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
Rachith Aiyappa, Matthew R. DeVerna, Manita Pote +13
Social media are utilized by millions of citizens to discuss important political issues. Politicians use these platforms to connect with the public and broadcast policy positions.…
Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks
Bao Tran Truong, Oliver Melbourne Allen, Filippo Menczer
The spread of misinformation poses a threat to the social media ecosystem. Effective countermeasures to mitigate this threat require that social media platforms be able to accurate…
CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines
Matthew R. DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Bao Tran Truong +7
With a substantial proportion of the population currently hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it is important that people have access to accurate information. However, there is…
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
Diogo Pacheco, Pik-Mai Hui, Christopher Torres-Lugo +3
Coordinated campaigns are used to influence and manipulate social media platforms and their users, a critical challenge to the free exchange of information online. Here we introduc…
Quantifying the Vulnerabilities of the Online Public Square to Adversarial Manipulation Tactics
Bao Tran Truong, Xiaodan Lou, Alessandro Flammini +1
Social media, seen by some as the modern public square, is vulnerable to manipulation. By controlling inauthentic accounts impersonating humans, malicious actors can amplify disinf…