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most citedThe Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement

7 citations · 15 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2026

ChildSafeAds Shared Task 2026: Commercial Content in Child-Facing YouTube Videos

Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta, Gerasimos Spanakis +1

ChildSafeAds is a shared task on commercial content in YouTube videos likely to reach children and teenagers. The dataset contains 3,360 videos from 939 channels, each starting wit…

cs.CY2026

Traceable by Design: An LLM Pipeline and Dashboard for EU Regulatory Consultation Analysis

Thales Bertaglia, Haoyang Gui, Catalina Goanta +1

Public consultations generate large volumes of data in the form of stakeholder submissions that are practically unfeasible to analyse manually. We present an end-to-end LLM-based p…

cs.CY2025

Computational Studies in Influencer Marketing: A Systematic Literature Review

Haoyang Gui, Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta +1

Influencer marketing has become a crucial feature of digital marketing strategies. Despite its rapid growth and algorithmic relevance, the field of computational studies in influen…

cs.CY2025

The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act

Catalina Goanta, Savvas Zannettou, Rishabh Kaushal +6

To facilitate accountability and transparency, the Digital Services Act (DSA) sets up a process through which Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) need to grant vetted researchers a…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Across Platforms and Languages: Dutch Influencers and Legal Disclosures on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok

Haoyang Gui, Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta +2

Content monetization on social media fuels a growing influencer economy. Influencer marketing remains largely undisclosed or inappropriately disclosed on social media. Non-disclosu…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

The Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement

Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta, Adriana Iamnitchi

YouTube is a major social media platform that plays a significant role in digital culture, with content creators at its core. These creators often engage in controversial behaviour…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Influencer Self-Disclosure Practices on Instagram: A Multi-Country Longitudinal Study

Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta, Gerasimos Spanakis +1

This paper presents a longitudinal study of more than ten years of activity on Instagram consisting of over a million posts by 400 content creators from four countries: the US, Bra…

cs.CY2024★ 6 cited

Automated Transparency: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Digital Services Act Transparency Database

Rishabh Kaushal, Jacob van de Kerkhof, Catalina Goanta +2

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a much awaited platforms liability reform in the European Union that was adopted on 1 November 2022 with the ambition to set a global example in t…