4 papers
Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies
Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Matteo Magnani +2
Coordinated online behavior, which spans from beneficial collective actions to harmful manipulation such as disinformation campaigns, has become a key focus in digital ecosystem an…
AMAQA: A Metadata-based QA Dataset for RAG Systems
Davide Bruni, Marco Avvenuti, Nicola Tonellotto +1
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are widely used in question-answering (QA) tasks, but current benchmarks lack metadata integration, limiting their evaluation in scenar…
Emoji Reactions on Telegram: Unreliable Indicators of Emotional Resonance
Serena Tardelli, Lorenzo Alvisi, Lorenzo Cima +2
Emoji reactions are a frequently used feature of messaging platforms, yet their communicative role remains understudied. Prior work on emojis has focused predominantly on in-text u…
The influence of coordinated behavior on toxicity
Edoardo Loru, Matteo Cinelli, Maurizio Tesconi +1
In the intricate landscape of social media, genuine content dissemination may be altered by a number of threats. Coordinated Behavior (CB), defined as orchestrated efforts by entit…