7 papers
Detection and Characterization of Coordinated Online Behavior: A Survey
Lorenzo Mannocci, Michele Mazza, Anna Monreale +2
Coordination is a fundamental aspect of life. The advent of social media has made it integral also to online human interactions, such as those that characterize thriving online com…
Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research
Stefano Cresci, Kai-Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi +3
Research on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation. Yet, social bot research is plagued by widespre…
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior and Information Spreading on Twitter
Matteo Cinelli, Stefano Cresci, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
We explore the effects of coordinated users (i.e., users characterized by an unexpected, suspicious, or exceptional similarity) in information spreading on Twitter by quantifying t…
Geo-Semantic-Parsing: AI-powered geoparsing by traversing semantic knowledge graphs
Leonardo Nizzoli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi +1
Online social networks convey rich information about geospatial facets of reality. However in most cases, geographic information is not explicit and structured, thus preventing its…
Towards better social crisis data with HERMES: Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency ManagEment System
Marco Avvenuti, Salvatore Bellomo, Stefano Cresci +2
People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in online social networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of human sen…
Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Online Behavior: Stability, Archetypes, and Influence
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi +4
Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online beh…