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Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations
Gian Marco Orlando, Jinyi Ye, Valerio La Gatta +4
Generative agents are rapidly advancing in sophistication, raising urgent questions about how they might coordinate when deployed in online ecosystems. This is particularly consequ…
Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri +1
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented in…
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection in a Video-First Ecosystem
Luca Luceri, Tanishq Vijay Salkar, Ashwin Balasubramanian +3
Detecting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) is central to the study of online influence operations. However, most methods focus on text-centric platforms, leaving video-first…
Limited Effectiveness of LLM-based Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Misinformation Stance Detection
Eun Cheol Choi, Ashwin Balasubramanian, Jinhu Qi +1
Misinformation surrounding emerging outbreaks poses a serious societal threat, making robust countermeasures essential. One promising approach is stance detection (SD), which ident…
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Valeria Pantè, David Axelrod, Alessandro Flammini +3
Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strategic, collective actions. While p…
Network-informed Prompt Engineering against Organized Astroturf Campaigns under Extreme Class Imbalance
Nikos Kanakaris, Heng Ping, Xiongye Xiao +4
Detecting organized political campaigns is of paramount importance in fighting against disinformation on social media. Existing approaches for the identification of such organized…
Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X
Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Beverlyn Tsai +2
Despite widespread concerns about the risks of AI-generated content (AIGC) to the integrity of social media discourse, little is known about its scale and scope, the actors respons…