4 papers
The Traffickers' Pitch: Detecting Deceptive Recruitment in Online Job Boards
Siyi Zhou, Peiran Qiu, Tanishq Salkar +6
While substantial efforts in anti-trafficking research and practice have focused on identifying and assisting victims after exploitation occurs, comparatively less attention has be…
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection in a Video-First Ecosystem
Luca Luceri, Tanishq Vijay Salkar, Ashwin Balasubramanian +3
Detecting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) is central to the study of online influence operations. However, most methods focus on text-centric platforms, leaving video-first…
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar +3
This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale, resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics.…
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on Tiktok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar +2
This paper documents our release of a large-scale data collection of TikTok posts related to the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Our current data comprises 1.8 million vi…