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cs.SI2020

Characterising and Detecting Sponsored Influencer Posts on Instagram

Koosha Zarei, Damilola Ibosiola, Reza Farahbakhsh +4

Recent years have seen a new form of advertisement campaigns emerge: those involving so-called social media influencers. These influencers accept money in return for promoting prod…

cs.SI2020

Impersonation on Social Media: A Deep Neural Approach to Identify Ingenuine Content

Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi +1

Impersonators are playing an important role in the production and propagation of the content on Online Social Networks, notably on Instagram. These entities are nefarious fake acco…

cs.SI2020

Hate Speech Detection and Racial Bias Mitigation in Social Media based on BERT model

Marzieh Mozafari, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

Disparate biases associated with datasets and trained classifiers in hateful and abusive content identification tasks have raised many concerns recently. Although the problem of bi…

cs.SI2020

How Impersonators Exploit Instagram to Generate Fake Engagement?

Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are playing an important role in the propagation of the content. These entities are the type of nefarious fake accounts th…

cs.SI20196 cited

A BERT-Based Transfer Learning Approach for Hate Speech Detection in Online Social Media

Marzieh Mozafari, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direc…

cs.SI2019

Uncovering Flaming Events on News Media in Social Media

Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi +1

Social networking sites (SNSs) facilitate the sharing of ideas and information through different types of feedback including publishing posts, leaving comments and other type of re…