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Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities
Kristina Lerman, Minh Duc Chu, Charles Bickham +2
Social media platforms have become critical spaces for discussing mental health concerns, including eating disorders. While these platforms can provide valuable support networks, t…
IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri +1
Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives. However, their open natur…
Unfiltered Conversations: A Dataset of 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Discourse on Truth Social
Kashish Shah, Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri +1
Truth Social, launched as a social media platform with a focus on free speech, has become a prominent space for political discourse, attracting a user base with diverse, yet often…
Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Approximately 50% of tweets in X's user timelines are personalized recommendations from accounts they do not follow. This raises a critical question: What political content are use…
A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X
Ashwin Balasubramanian, Vito Zou, Hitesh Narayana +3
In this paper, we introduce the first release of a large-scale dataset capturing discourse on (a.k.a., Twitter) related to the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election…
Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset
Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
With its lenient moderation policies and long-standing associations with potentially unlawful activities, Telegram has become an incubator for problematic content, frequently featu…
Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Federico Cinus +1
Information Operations (IOs) pose a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes, with the potential to influence election-related online discourse. In anticipation…
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Federico Cinus, Marco Minici, Luca Luceri +1
Coordinated information operations remain a persistent challenge on social media, despite platform efforts to curb them. While previous research has primarily focused on identifyin…