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Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Nikhil Jindal +1
Online social media represent an oftentimes unique source of information, and having access to reliable and unbiased content is crucial, especially during crises and contentious ev…
From Fake News to #FakeNews: Mining Direct and Indirect Relationships among Hashtags for Fake News Detection
Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani, Emilio Ferrara
The COVID-19 pandemic has gained worldwide attention and allowed fake news, such as ``COVID-19 is the flu,'' to spread quickly and widely on social media. Combating this coronaviru…
Twitter Spam and False Accounts Prevalence, Detection and Characterization: A Survey
Emilio Ferrara
The issue of quantifying and characterizing various forms of social media manipulation and abuse has been at the forefront of the computational social science research community fo…
Exposing Influence Campaigns in the Age of LLMs: A Behavioral-Based AI Approach to Detecting State-Sponsored Trolls
Fatima Ezzeddine, Luca Luceri, Omran Ayoub +4
The detection of state-sponsored trolls operating in influence campaigns on social media is a critical and unsolved challenge for the research community, which has significant impl…
Identifying and Characterizing Behavioral Classes of Radicalization within the QAnon Conspiracy on Twitter
Emily L. Wang, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri +1
Social media provide a fertile ground where conspiracy theories and radical ideas can flourish, reach broad audiences, and sometimes lead to hate or violence beyond the online worl…
How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Emily Chen +1
Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery. Unsurprisingly, due…