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A null model to detect coordinated online behavior integrating evidence from multiple indicators
Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote, Lake Yin +5
Coordinated online accounts can amplify messages and manipulate attention, but detecting such behavior is challenging due to confounding factors like account activity and item popu…
Information Operations Exploit APIs to Manipulate Social Media
Manita Pote, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Research on information operations has focused primarily on the coordinated accounts involved in such campaigns and in the content they promote. Bad actors manage the activity of i…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
Tuğrulcan 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…
Prefill-Guided Thinking for zero-shot detection of AI-generated images
Zoher Kachwala, Danishjeet Singh, Danielle Yang +1
Traditional supervised methods for detecting AI-generated images depend on large, curated datasets for training and fail to generalize to novel, out-of-domain image generators. As…
Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations
Ozgur Can Seckin, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala +4
Social media platforms have become a hub for political activities and discussions, democratizing participation in these endeavors. However, they have also become an incubator for m…
Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection
Manita Pote, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Alessandro Flammini +1
Coordinated reply attacks are a tactic observed in online influence operations and other coordinated campaigns to support or harass targeted individuals, or influence them or their…
Effects of Antivaccine Tweets on COVID-19 Vaccinations, Cases, and Deaths
John Bollenbacher, Filippo Menczer, John Bryden
Despite the wide availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and their effectiveness in reducing hospitalizations and mortality during the pandemic, a majority of Americ…
Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure
Munjung Kim, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filippo Menczer
Hate speech on social media is a pressing concern. Understanding the factors associated with hate speech may help mitigate it. Here we explore the association between hate speech a…
Rematch: Robust and Efficient Matching of Local Knowledge Graphs to Improve Structural and Semantic Similarity
Zoher Kachwala, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak +1
Knowledge graphs play a pivotal role in various applications, such as question-answering and fact-checking. Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) represents text as knowledge graph…