9 papers
A Social Media Analysis of Discourse on the Israel--Palestine Conflict on Telegram
Michail Zafeiropoulos, Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
Social media has become a central arena in which armed conflicts are contested, yet the pro-Israel and pro-Palestine communities on Telegram, whose broadcast architecture yields an…
Detecting Synthetic Political Narratives in Cross-Platform Social Media Discourse
Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
The proliferation of large language models has introduced a new paradigm of synthetic political communication in which narratives may be generated, semantically coordinated, and st…
White-Basilisk: A Hybrid Model for Code Vulnerability Detection
Ioannis Lamprou, Alexander Shevtsov, Ioannis Arapakis +1
The proliferation of software vulnerabilities presents a significant challenge to cybersecurity, necessitating more effective detection methodologies. We introduce White-Basilisk,…
From Parliamentary Rhetoric to Enacted Law: An NLP Pipeline for Semantic Auditing of the Greek Legislative Process
Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
The Greek legislative framework is characterized by intricate cross-referencing, frequent amendments, and limited machine-readable access, hindering transparency and civic engageme…
Cross-Platform Digital Discourse Analysis of Iran: Topics, Sentiment, Polarization, and Event Validation on Telegram and Reddit
Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
We analyze Iran-related discourse across two structurally different platforms: Telegram (7,567 messages from international news channels) and Reddit (23,909 posts and comments from…
Coordinated Information Dissemination on Telegram and Reddit During Political Turbulence: A Case Study of Venezuela in Global News Channels
Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
Telegram is increasingly used for political communication and news dissemination, yet evidence of coordinated content sharing remains limited. We test whether mainstream global new…