12 papers
Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content
Mykola Trokhymovych, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Alessandro Flammini +2
The convergence of large language models and social bots allows malicious actors to manipulate the information ecosystem by generating human-like content at scale. Existing models…
Emergence of Stereotypes and Affective Polarization from Belief Network Dynamics
Ozgur Can Seckin, Rachith Aiyappa, Madalina Vlasceanu +3
Our belief systems are shaped by social processes, such as observations and influence, and by cognitive processes, such as the drive for internal coherence. These processes steer h…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
TuÄrulcan 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…
Behavior Change as a Signal for Identifying Social Media Manipulation
Isuru Ariyarathne, Gangani Ariyarathne, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media accounts engaging in online manipulation can change their behaviors for re-purposing or to evade detection. Existing detection systems are built on features that do no…
Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks
Filippo Radicchi, Filipi N. Silva, Alessandro Flammini +2
We study the necessary condition to detect, by means of spectral modularity optimization, the ground-truth partition in networks generated according to the weighted planted-partiti…