5 papers
Characterizing Metastable Faults and Failures
Ali Farahbakhsh, Qingjie Lu, Lorenzo Alvisi +2
Metastable failures are hard to detect, prevent, and mitigate. During a metastable failure, a system exhibits self-sustaining bad behavior even in the absence of adversarial condit…
Emoji Reactions on Telegram: Unreliable Indicators of Emotional Resonance
Serena Tardelli, Lorenzo Alvisi, Lorenzo Cima +2
Emoji reactions are a frequently used feature of messaging platforms, yet their communicative role remains understudied. Prior work on emojis has focused predominantly on in-text u…
From Toxicity to Conformity: Adaptive user behavior to social norms in Telegram communities
Lorenzo Alvisi, Victoria Popa, Guglielmo Cola +2
Toxic and antisocial user behavior on social media platforms has received considerable scholarly attention due to its detrimental effects on society. This study takes a holistic pe…
Mapping the Italian Telegram Ecosystem: Communities, Toxicity, and Hate Speech
Lorenzo Alvisi, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Telegram has become a major space for political discourse and alternative media. However, its lack of moderation allows misinformation, extremism, and toxicity to spread. While pri…
Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram Conspiracy Spheres through Message Forwarding
Lorenzo Alvisi, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Telegram has grown into a significant platform for news and information sharing, favored for its anonymity and minimal moderation. This openness, however, makes it vulnerable to mi…