3 papers
cs.SI2026
Behavior Change as a Signal for Identifying Social Media Manipulation
Isuru Ariyarathne, Gangani Ariyarathne, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media accounts engaging in online manipulation can change their behaviors for re-purposing or to evade detection. Existing detection systems are built on features that do no…
cs.LG2026
Identifying the Geographic Foci of US Local News
Gangani Ariyarathne, Isuru Ariyarathne, Greatness Emmanuel-King +2
Local journalism is vital in democratic societies where it informs people about local issues like, school board elections, small businesses, local health services, etc. But mountin…
cs.IR2024
3DLNews: A Three-decade Dataset of US Local News Articles
Gangani Ariyarathne, Alexander C. Nwala
We present 3DLNews, a novel dataset with local news articles from the United States spanning the period from 1996 to 2024. It contains almost 1 million URLs (with HTML text) from o…