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Characterizing the MrDeepFakes Sexual Deepfake Marketplace
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar +1
The prevalence of sexual deepfake material has exploded over the past several years. Attackers create and utilize deepfakes for many reasons: to seek sexual gratification, to haras…
PressProtect: Helping Journalists Navigate Social Media in the Face of Online Harassment
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar +1
Social media has become a critical tool for journalists to disseminate their work, engage with their audience, and connect with sources. Unfortunately, journalists also regularly e…
Watch Your Language: Investigating Content Moderation with Large Language Models
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity due to their ability to perform a wide array of natural language tasks. Text-based content moderation is one LLM use case t…
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies proliferate on the web, with some narratives having dangerous real-world consequences on public health, elections, and individual safe…
CERTainty: Detecting DNS Manipulation at Scale using TLS Certificates
Elisa Tsai, Deepak Kumar, Ram Sundara Raman +3
DNS manipulation is an increasingly common technique used by censors and other network adversaries to prevent users from accessing restricted Internet resources and hijack their co…
Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance
Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar +2
In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were targeted by a wave of "hate raids," a form of attack that overwhelms a streamer's chatroom with hateful messa…
A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories' Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Do we live in a "Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories?" In the last few decades, conspiracy theories have proliferated on the Internet with some having dangerous real-world consequenc…
Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Kumar +1
We conduct the first large-scale user study examining how users interact with an AI Code assistant to solve a variety of security related tasks across different programming languag…
"A Special Operation": A Quantitative Approach to Dissecting and Comparing Different Media Ecosystems' Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
The coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has varied widely between Western, Russian, and Chinese media ecosystems with propaganda, disinformation, and narrative spins presen…
Understanding Longitudinal Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit
Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, Kurt Thomas +1
Toxic comments are the top form of hate and harassment experienced online. While many studies have investigated the types of toxic comments posted online, the effects that such con…
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War On Reddit
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
In the buildup to and in the weeks following the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media outlets output torrents of misleading and outright false information.…
No Calm in The Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory whose followers largely organize online. In this work, we use web crawls seeded from two of the largest QAnon hotbeds on the Internet, Voat a…