4 papers
Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation
Pujan Paudel, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Rebecca Auger +2
Automated soft moderation systems are unable to ascertain if a post supports or refutes a false claim, resulting in a large number of contextual false positives. This limits their…
Unraveling the Web of Disinformation: Exploring the Larger Context of State-Sponsored Influence Campaigns on Twitter
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Pujan Paudel +2
Social media platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for connectivity and exchange of ideas; however, they also serve as fertile grounds for the dissemination of disinformation…
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn +2
Alas, coordinated hate attacks, or raids, are becoming increasingly common online. In a nutshell, these are perpetrated by a group of aggressors who organize and coordinate operati…
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media, often sponsored by state actors aiming to manipulate public opinion on sensitive political topics. Typical…