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Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter
Luca Luceri, Valeria Pantè, Keith Burghardt +1
Social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have become pivotal arenas for influence campaigns, often orchestrated by state-sponsored information operations (IOs). This paper del…
Socio-Linguistic Characteristics of Coordinated Inauthentic Accounts
Keith Burghardt, Ashwin Rao, Siyi Guo +6
Online manipulation is a pressing concern for democracies, but the actions and strategies of coordinated inauthentic accounts, which have been used to interfere in elections, are n…
Clique Densification in Networks
Haochen Pi, Keith Burghardt, Allon G. Percus +1
Real-world networks are rarely static. Recently, there has been increasing interest in both network growth and network densification, in which the number of edges scales superlinea…
Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler +3
On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and rem…
No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler +3
While online hate groups pose significant risks to the health of online platforms and safety of marginalized groups, little is known about what causes users to become active in hat…
Data-Driven Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Christopher Tran, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman +1
Estimating how a treatment affects different individuals, known as heterogeneous treatment effect estimation, is an important problem in empirical sciences. In the last few years,…