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most citedYouTube, The Great Radicalizer? Auditing and Mitigating Ideological Biases in YouTube Recommendations

19 citations · 24 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

Bitcoin Price Direction Prediction via Regime-Aware Multi-Modal Fusion of Social Sentiment and Technical Features

Muhammad Abdullah Haroon

Bitcoin price prediction on sub-daily timescales is a hard open problem in computational finance. Bitcoin exhibits fat-tailed returns, non-stationary dynamics, and a price discover…

cs.CL2026

When Benchmarks Mislead: Shortcut Learning, Length Confounds, and the Limits of Cross-Dataset Generalization in Multilingual Fake News and Sarcasm Detection

Muhammad Abdullah Haroon

Cross-dataset generalisation is a fundamental requirement for deploying text classifiers in real-world settings, yet systematic evaluation across corpora from different sources rem…

cs.CL2025

"Whose Side Are You On?" Estimating Ideology of Political and News Content Using Large Language Models and Few-shot Demonstration Selection

Muhammad Haroon, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Anshuman Chhabra

The rapid growth of social media platforms has led to concerns about radicalization, filter bubbles, and content bias. Existing approaches to classifying ideology are limited in th…

cs.CL2025

Re-ranking Using Large Language Models for Mitigating Exposure to Harmful Content on Social Media Platforms

Rajvardhan Oak, Muhammad Haroon, Claire Jo +2

Social media platforms utilize Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered recommendation algorithms to maximize user engagement, which can result in inadvertent…

cs.CY2022★ 19 cited

YouTube, The Great Radicalizer? Auditing and Mitigating Ideological Biases in YouTube Recommendations

Muhammad Haroon, Anshuman Chhabra, Xin Liu +3

Recommendations algorithms of social media platforms are often criticized for placing users in "rabbit holes" of (increasingly) ideologically biased content. Despite these concerns…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising

Jiang Zhang, Konstantinos Psounis, Muhammad Haroon +1

Online behavioral advertising, and the associated tracking paraphernalia, poses a real privacy threat. Unfortunately, existing privacy-enhancing tools are not always effective agai…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Avengers Ensemble! Improving Transferability of Authorship Obfuscation

Muhammad Haroon, Fareed Zaffar, Padmini Srinivasan +1

Stylometric approaches have been shown to be quite effective for real-world authorship attribution. To mitigate the privacy threat posed by authorship attribution, researchers have…