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Agent Mosaic: Recognizing Confidentiality Leaks in Agentic LLM Systems
Daniel Ruiz, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Modern LLM agents can retrieve information from accessible documents, and then disclose a sensitive conclusion assembled from them. This mosaic effect creates a critical risk for a…
Manufactured Divisiveness: Decomposing the Hostile Content of Seven Social Media Influence Operations
Emilio Ferrara
State-backed influence operations are routinely measured as high-prevalence sources of ``hate'' and ``toxicity.'' We argue those rates rest on a measurement error: the detectors be…
Cultural Targets, Structural Frames, Binding Morals: A Cross-Lingual Audit of Online Hate in Multicultural Singapore
Emilio Ferrara
Multicultural Singapore hosts overlapping language publics (English, Chinese, and Malay) that discuss the same out-groups in parallel, a natural setting to ask whether online hate…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote +8
Coordinated campaigns on social media play a critical role in shaping crisis information environments, particularly during the onset of conflicts when uncertainty is high and verif…
ECHO: Encoding Communities via High-order Operators
Emilio Ferrara
Community detection in attributed networks faces a fundamental divide: topological algorithms ignore semantic features, while Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) encounter devastating com…
What do people want to fact-check?
Bijean Ghafouri, Dorsaf Sallami, Luca Luceri +4
Research on misinformation has focused almost exclusively on supply, asking what falsehoods circulate, who produces them, and whether corrections work. A basic demand-side question…
Harm in AI-Driven Societies: An Audit of Toxicity Adoption on Chirper.ai
Erica Coppolillo, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in autonomous agents that engage, converse, and co-evolve in online social platforms. While prior work has documented the gen…
Gendered Pathways in AI Companionship: Cross-Community Behavior and Toxicity Patterns on Reddit
Erica Coppolillo, Emilio Ferrara
AI-companionship platforms are rapidly reshaping how people form emotional, romantic, and parasocial bonds with non-human agents, raising new questions about how these relationship…