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Revealing The Secret Power: How Algorithms Can Influence Content Visibility on Twitter/X
Alessandro Galeazzi, Pujan Paudel, Mauro Conti +2
In recent years, the opaque design and the limited public understanding of social networks' recommendation algorithms have raised concerns about potential manipulation of informati…
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023
Jay Patel, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
Online web communities often face bans for violating platform policies, encouraging their migration to alternative platforms. This migration, however, can result in increased toxic…
Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to identify social media posts discussing (known) conspiracy theories. We use 189 conspiracy claims collected by…