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Multi-MLLM Knowledge Distillation for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Zhao Tong, Ignacio Castro +2
Multimodal out-of-context news is a type of misinformation in which the image is used outside of its original context. Many existing works have leveraged multimodal large language…
Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +6
Microblogging is a crucial mode of online communication. However, launching a new microblogging platform remains challenging, largely due to network effects. This has resulted in e…
Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +1
The Fediverse, a group of interconnected servers providing a variety of interoperable services (e.g. micro-blogging in Mastodon) has gained rapid popularity. This sudden growth, pa…
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +5
The pitfalls of centralized social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter/X, have led to concerns about control, transparency, and accountability. Decentralized social networks hav…
How Similar Are Elected Politicians and Their Constituents? Quantitative Evidence From Online Social Networks
Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro
How similar are politicians to those who vote for them? This is a critical question at the heart of democratic representation and particularly relevant at times when political diss…
Learning Domain-Invariant Features for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Mengqi Zhang, Ignacio Castro +2
Out-of-context news is a common type of misinformation on online media platforms. This involves posting a caption, alongside a mismatched news image. Existing out-of-context news d…
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry +3
The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts…
Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy
Matthew Russell Barnes, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin +5
An important concept in organisational behaviour is how hierarchy affects the voice of individuals, whereby members of a given organisation exhibit differing power relations based…
Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN
Timm Böttger, Felix Cuadrado, Gareth Tyson +2
The importance of IXPs to interconnect different networks and exchange traffic locally has been well studied over the last few years. However, far less is known about the role IXPs…