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most citedThe Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement

7 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SI2026

Citation Farming on ResearchGate: Blatant and Effective

Cenk Erdogan, Bennett Daniel, Benedikt Wotka +2

We investigate platform-native citation farming on ResearchGate by analyzing almost 3000 papers uploaded by five suspected boosting-service provider accounts. From the uploaded pap…

cs.CR2026

Measuring Privacy vs. Fidelity in Synthetic Social Media Datasets

Henry Tari, Adriana Iamnitchi

Synthetic data is increasingly used to support research without exposing sensitive user content. Social media data is one of the types of datasets that would hugely benefit from re…

cs.CL2025

Towards Fairness Assessment of Dutch Hate Speech Detection

Julie Bauer, Rishabh Kaushal, Thales Bertaglia +1

Numerous studies have proposed computational methods to detect hate speech online, yet most focus on the English language and emphasize model development. In this study, we evaluat…

cs.CL2025

Towards High-Fidelity Synthetic Multi-platform Social Media Datasets via Large Language Models

Henry Tari, Nojus Sereiva, Rishabh Kaushal +2

Social media datasets are essential for research on a variety of topics, such as disinformation, influence operations, hate speech detection, or influencer marketing practices. How…

cs.CY2025

The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act

Catalina Goanta, Savvas Zannettou, Rishabh Kaushal +6

To facilitate accountability and transparency, the Digital Services Act (DSA) sets up a process through which Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) need to grant vetted researchers a…

cs.CY20247 cited

The Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement

Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta, Adriana Iamnitchi

YouTube is a major social media platform that plays a significant role in digital culture, with content creators at its core. These creators often engage in controversial behaviour…