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most citedAnalysis of Twitter and YouTube during USelections 2020

24 citations · 78 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2025

White-Basilisk: A Hybrid Model for Code Vulnerability Detection

Ioannis Lamprou, Alexander Shevtsov, Ioannis Arapakis +1

The proliferation of software vulnerabilities presents a significant challenge to cybersecurity, necessitating more effective detection methodologies. We introduce White-Basilisk,…

cs.SI2023★ 4 cited

Russo-Ukrainian War: Prediction and explanation of Twitter suspension

Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Ioannis Lamprou +3

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting what is now known as the Russo-Ukrainian War, initiating an online discourse on social media. Twitter as one of the most popul…

cs.SI2023★ 2 cited

BotArtist: Generic approach for bot detection in Twitter via semi-automatic machine learning pipeline

Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Ioannis Lamprou +2

Twitter, as one of the most popular social networks, provides a platform for communication and online discourse. Unfortunately, it has also become a target for bots and fake accoun…

cs.SI2022★ 21 cited

Twitter Dataset on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki +2

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, also known now as Russo-Ukrainian War. We have initiated an ongoing dataset acquisition from Twitter API. Until the day this paper was…

cs.SI2021★ 19 cited

Identification of Twitter Bots Based on an Explainable Machine Learning Framework: The US 2020 Elections Case Study

Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki +1

Twitter is one of the most popular social networks attracting millions of users, while a considerable proportion of online discourse is captured. It provides a simple usage framewo…

cs.SI2020★ 24 cited

Analysis of Twitter and YouTube during USelections 2020

Alexander Shevtsov, Maria Oikonomidou, Despoina Antonakaki +2

The presidential elections in the United States on 3 November 2020 have caused extensive discussions on social media. A part of the content on US elections is organic, coming from…

cs.SI2020★ 8 cited

Discovery and classification of Twitter bots

Alexander Shevtsov Alexander Shevtsov, Maria Oikonomidou, Despoina Antonakaki +4

A very large number of people use Online Social Networks daily. Such platforms thus become attractive targets for agents that seek to gain access to the attention of large audience…