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most citedOn the Influence of Twitter Trolls during the 2016 US Presidential Election

19 citations · 20 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG20221 cited

Privacy-Preserving Online Content Moderation: A Federated Learning Use Case

Pantelitsa Leonidou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Nikos Salamanos +1

Users are daily exposed to a large volume of harmful content on various social network platforms. One solution is developing online moderation tools using Machine Learning techniqu…

cs.SI2021

A Unified Graph-Based Approach to Disinformation Detection using Contextual and Semantic Relations

Marius Paraschiv, Nikos Salamanos, Costas Iordanou +2

As recent events have demonstrated, disinformation spread through social networks can have dire political, economic and social consequences. Detecting disinformation must inevitabl…

cs.NI2021

A First Look into the Structural Properties and Resilience of Blockchain Overlays

Aristodemos Paphitis, Nicolas Kourtellis, Michael Sirivianos

Blockchain (BC) systems are highly distributed peer-to-peer networks that offer an alternative to centralized services and promise robustness to coordinated attacks. However, the r…

cs.CY2020

"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations

Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn +3

The role played by YouTube's recommendation algorithm in unwittingly promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories is not entirely understood. Yet, this can have dire real-world…

cs.SI2020

A Privacy-Preserving Architecture for the Protection of Adolescents in Online Social Networks

Markos Charalambous, Petros Papagiannis, Antonis Papasavva +8

Online social networks (OSN) constitute an integral part of people's every day social activity. Specifically, mainstream OSNs such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are especially…

cs.DB2020

Hihooi: A Database Replication Middleware for Scaling Transactional Databases Consistently

Michael A. Georgiou, Aristodemos Paphitis, Michael Sirivianos +1

With the advent of the Internet and Internet-connected devices, modern business applications can experience rapid increases as well as variability in transactional workloads. Datab…