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Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions
Christopher Torres-Lugo, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala +1
Research into influence campaigns on Twitter has mostly relied on identifying malicious activities from tweets obtained via public APIs. These APIs provide access to public tweets…
VaccinEU: COVID-19 vaccine conversations on Twitter in French, German and Italian
Marco Di Giovanni, Francesco Pierri, Christopher Torres-Lugo +1
Despite the increasing limitations for unvaccinated people, in many European countries there is still a non-negligible fraction of individuals who refuse to get vaccinated against…
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook
Kai-Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Pik-Mai Hui +4
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the…
The Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter
Christopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer
A growing body of evidence points to critical vulnerabilities of social media, such as the emergence of partisan echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation. We show that…
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…