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Multi-MLLM Knowledge Distillation for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Zhao Tong, Ignacio Castro +2
Multimodal out-of-context news is a type of misinformation in which the image is used outside of its original context. Many existing works have leveraged multimodal large language…
Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +1
The Fediverse, a group of interconnected servers providing a variety of interoperable services (e.g. micro-blogging in Mastodon) has gained rapid popularity. This sudden growth, pa…
How Similar Are Elected Politicians and Their Constituents? Quantitative Evidence From Online Social Networks
Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro
How similar are politicians to those who vote for them? This is a critical question at the heart of democratic representation and particularly relevant at times when political diss…
Learning Domain-Invariant Features for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Mengqi Zhang, Ignacio Castro +2
Out-of-context news is a common type of misinformation on online media platforms. This involves posting a caption, alongside a mismatched news image. Existing out-of-context news d…
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry +3
The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts…
Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy
Matthew Russell Barnes, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin +5
An important concept in organisational behaviour is how hierarchy affects the voice of individuals, whereby members of a given organisation exhibit differing power relations based…
An Analysis of Twitter Discourse on the War Between Russia and Ukraine
Haris Bin Zia, Ehsan Ul Haq, Ignacio Castro +2
On the 21st of February 2022, Russia recognised the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, three days before launching an invasion of Ukraine. Since then, an…
Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Economic Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network
Waleed Iqbal, Vahid Ghafouri, Gareth Tyson +2
From health to education, income impacts a huge range of life choices. Earlier research has leveraged data from online social networks to study precisely this impact. In this paper…
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
Haris Bin Zia, Jiahui He, Aravindh Raman +3
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's view…
Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +3
As an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social networks, the Fediverse is growing in popularity. The recent, and polemical, takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk has exacerba…
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson +5
Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites often…
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh. Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses technologies aimed at providing greater transparency and openness on the web. The DW relies on independent se…
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls).…
A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
R. Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama +5
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an `infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information…