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Assessing the Reliability of Persona-Conditioned LLMs as Synthetic Survey Respondents
Erika Elizabeth Taday Morocho, Lorenzo Cima, Tiziano Fagni +2
Using persona-conditioned LLMs as synthetic survey respondents has become a common practice in computational social science and agent-based simulations. Yet, it remains unclear whe…
Dark Personality Traits and Online Toxicity: Linking Self-Reports to Reddit Activity
Aldo Cerulli, Benedetta Tessa, Giuseppe La Selva +4
Dark personality traits have long been associated with antisocial and toxic online behaviors, yet their relationship with observable online activity remains unclear. We investigate…
Investigating the heterogenous effects of a massive content moderation intervention via Difference-in-Differences
Lorenzo Cima, Benedetta Tessa, Stefano Cresci +2
In today's online environments, users encounter harm and abuse on a daily basis. Therefore, content moderation is crucial to ensure their safety and well-being. However, the effect…
Beyond Trial-and-Error: Predicting User Abandonment After a Moderation Intervention
Benedetta Tessa, Lorenzo Cima, Amaury Trujillo +2
Current content moderation follows a reactive, trial-and-error approach, where interventions are applied and their effects are only measured post-hoc. In contrast, we introduce a p…