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Characterizing Bluesky Content Moderation Service: From Automation of Service to Landscape of Harms
Pushpdeep Singh, Sayeh Jarollahi, Ayan Majumdar +5
Empirical research on content moderation is fundamentally constrained by the opaque deployment of moderation systems on major social media platforms. To this end, the recent emerge…
Does Ad-Free Mean Less Data Collection? An Empirical Study of Platform Data Practices and User Expectations
Sepehr Mousavi, Abhisek Dash, Savvas Zannettou +1
Online platforms increasingly offer "paid" ad-free subscriptions as an alternative to the traditional "free" ad-based model. The transition to ad-free models ostensibly removes adv…
Setting the Course, but Forgetting to Steer: Analyzing Compliance with GDPR's Right of Access to Data by Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Antariksh Das +6
The GDPR's Right of Access aims to empower users with control over their personal data via Data Download Packages (DDPs). However, their effectiveness is often compromised by incon…
Sponsored is the New Organic: Implications of Sponsored Results on Quality of Search Results in the Amazon Marketplace
Abhisek Dash, Saptarshi Ghosh, Animesh Mukherjee +2
Interleaving sponsored results (advertisements) amongst organic results on search engine result pages (SERP) has become a common practice across multiple digital platforms. Adverti…
Investigating Nudges toward Related Sellers on E-commerce Marketplaces: A Case Study on Amazon
Abhisek Dash, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh +2
E-commerce marketplaces provide business opportunities to millions of sellers worldwide. Some of these sellers have special relationships with the marketplace by virtue of using th…