5 papers
Synthetic Data in Education: Empirical Insights from Traditional Resampling and Deep Generative Models
Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa, Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed
Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting betwee…
Duplicating Deceit: Inauthentic Behavior Among Indian Misinformation Duplicators on X/Twitter
Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Bogdan Carbunar
This paper investigates inauthentic duplication on social media, where multiple accounts share identical misinformation tweets. Leveraging a dataset of misinformation verified by A…
The Language of Influence: Sentiment, Emotion, and Hate Speech in State Sponsored Influence Operations
Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed
State-sponsored influence operations (SIOs) have become a pervasive and complex challenge in the digital age, particularly on social media platforms where information spreads rapid…
Toxicity in State Sponsored Information Operations
Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed
State-sponsored information operations (IOs) increasingly influence global discourse on social media platforms, yet their emotional and rhetorical strategies remain inadequately ch…
Victim-Centred Abuse Investigations and Defenses for Social Media Platforms
Zaid Hakami, Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Peter J. Clarke +2
Online abuse, a persistent aspect of social platform interactions, impacts user well-being and exposes flaws in platform designs that include insufficient detection efforts and ina…