4 papers
Audit of takedown delays across social media reveals failure to reduce exposure to illegal content
Bao Tran Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Gianluca Nogara +7
Illegal content on social media poses significant societal harm and necessitates timely removal. However, the impact of the speed of content removal on prevalence, reach, and expos…
A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch
Gianluca Nogara, Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Matthew R. DeVerna +5
Bluesky is a decentralized, Twitter-like social media platform that has rapidly gained popularity. Following an invite-only phase, it officially opened to the public on February 6t…
The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening
Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Gianluca Nogara, Matthew R. DeVerna +5
Bluesky is a Twitter-like decentralized social media platform that has recently grown in popularity. After an invite-only period, it opened to the public worldwide on February 6th,…
Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci +3
Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is extensively u…