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What's on Your Mind? Exploring Privacy of Mental Health Apps
Chloe Georgiou, Hans Lu, Emiliano De Cristofaro +1
Therapy and life-coaching apps have grown rapidly in number, variety, and popularity. At the same time, their users often share highly sensitive and personal information, including…
CLIOPATRA: Extracting Private Information from LLM Insights
Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Peter Kairouz
The widespread adoption of AI assistants has encouraged the development of privacy-aware platforms designed to extract insights from real-world usage. Their privacy protections pri…
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…
"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science
Alexandros Efstratiou, Marina Efstratiou, Satrio Yudhoatmojo +2
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary rate of scientific papers on the topic that were discussed among the general public, although often in biased or misinformed wa…
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces
Utkucan Balci, Chen Ling, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and vulnerable groups of people. Platforms built to foster social interaction and engagement have enabled histori…
LAMBRETTA: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
To curb the problem of false information, social media platforms like Twitter started adding warning labels to content discussing debunked narratives, with the goal of providing mo…
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
Alexandros Efstratiou, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield +3
Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chambers and hostile intergroup interactions. In this paper, we explore the relationship between these two phenom…
Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes
Alexandros Efstratiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Previous work suggests that people's preference for different kinds of information depends on more than just accuracy. This could happen because the messages contained within diffe…
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media, often sponsored by state actors aiming to manipulate public opinion on sensitive political topics. Typical…
Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan's Politically Incorrect Board
Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jeremy Blackburn
The dissemination and reach of scientific knowledge have increased at a blistering pace. In this context, e-Print servers have played a central role by providing scientists with a…
An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new social network platform launched by former US President Donald Trump's team. Among other things, we find that use…