5 papers
Paid to Look Like Truth: The Prevalence and Dark Patterns of Advertorials in News Outlets
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
A reader browsing through an online article is highly likely to encounter an advertorial, often without realizing it. Advertorials represent a relatively new marketing strategy whe…
Before & After: The Effect of EU's 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
Over the past few years, the European Commission has made significant steps to reduce disinformation in cyberspace. One of those steps has been the introduction of the 2022 "Streng…
I Know What You Bought Last Summer: Investigating User Data Leakage in E-Commerce Platforms
Ioannis Vlachogiannakis, Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +2
In the digital age, e-commerce has transformed the way consumers shop, offering convenience and accessibility. Nevertheless, concerns about the privacy and security of personal inf…
FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Spithouris, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machin…
SenTopX: Benchmark for User Sentiment on Various Topics
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zhao +3
Toxic sentiment analysis on Twitter (X) often focuses on specific topics and events such as politics and elections. Datasets of toxic users in such research are typically gathered…