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Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media
Jordi Guillem Condom-Tibau, Giovanni Puccetti, Clara Bacciu +2
Despite a growing demand for causal evidence about social media, independent researchers remain severely constrained in their ability to conduct experiments directly on online plat…
Contextualized Counterspeech Can Be More Persuasive Than Generic Counterspeech
Lorenzo Cima, Alessio Miaschi, Amaury Trujillo +3
AI-generated counterspeech offers a scalable and effective strategy to mitigate online toxicity by promoting more constructive dialogue. Yet, existing approaches adopt a generic, o…
Disarranged Harmonization of Transparency Reporting by Social Media Platforms Under the Digital Services Act
Amaury Trujillo, Benedetta Tessa, Stefano Cresci
The European Commission recently introduced new regulation to harmonize transparency reporting of large online platforms under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Here, we present the…
When Transparency Falls Short: Auditing Platform Moderation During a High-Stakes Election
Benedetta Tessa, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Amaury Trujillo +1
During major political events, social media platforms encounter increased systemic risks. However, it is still unclear if and how they adjust their moderation practices in response…
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…
A Geometric Analysis of Small-sized Language Model Hallucinations
Emanuele Ricco, Elia Onofri, Lorenzo Cima +2
Hallucinations -- plausible but factually incorrect responses -- pose a major challenge to the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially in multi-step or agentic sett…
The Big Ban Theory: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Dataset of Online Content Moderation Actions
Aldo Cerulli, Lorenzo Cima, Benedetta Tessa +2
Online platforms rely on moderation interventions to curb harmful behavior such as hate speech, toxicity, and the spread of mis- and disinformation. Yet research on the effects and…
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…
Quantifying Feature Importance for Online Content Moderation
Benedetta Tessa, Alejandro Moreo, Stefano Cresci +2
Accurately estimating how users respond to moderation interventions is paramount for developing effective and user-centred moderation strategies. However, this requires a clear und…
Improving Regulatory Oversight in Online Content Moderation
Benedetta Tessa, Denise Amram, Anna Monreale +1
The European Union introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA) to address the risks associated with digital platforms and promote a safer online environment. However, despite the pot…
Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci +2
The kick-off of vaccination campaigns in Europe, starting in late December 2020, has been followed by the online spread of controversies and conspiracies surrounding vaccine validi…
Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci +3
Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is extensively u…
Dynamics of toxic behavior in the Covid-19 vaccination debate
Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Stefano Cresci +2
In this paper, we study the behavior of users on Online Social Networks in the context of Covid-19 vaccines in Italy. We identify two main polarized communities: Provax and Novax.…
User's Reaction Patterns in Online Social Network Communities
Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Stefano Cresci +3
Several one-fits-all intervention policies were introduced by the Online Social Networks (OSNs) platforms to mitigate potential harms. Nevertheless, some studies showed the limited…