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Provable Compliance: A Protocol for Runtime Compliance Evidence and Transaction-Specific Decisioning
Jeremy Blackburn, Tim Hines, Matthew Koepp +2
Regulated institutions already perform onboarding, screening, monitoring, and review, but compliance evidence ages, and whether it supports a decision depends on the institution, p…
Evolving Hate Speech Online: An Adaptive Framework for Detection and Mitigation
Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini
The proliferation of social media platforms has led to an increase in the spread of hate speech, particularly targeting vulnerable communities. Unfortunately, existing methods for…
PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter
Pujan Paudel, Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn +1
Images are a powerful and immediate vehicle to carry misleading or outright false messages, yet identifying image-based misinformation at scale poses unique challenges. In this pap…
Unraveling the Web of Disinformation: Exploring the Larger Context of State-Sponsored Influence Campaigns on Twitter
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Pujan Paudel +2
Social media platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for connectivity and exchange of ideas; however, they also serve as fertile grounds for the dissemination of disinformation…
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023
Jay Patel, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
Online web communities often face bans for violating platform policies, encouraging their migration to alternative platforms. This migration, however, can result in increased toxic…
"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science
Alexandros Efstratiou, Marina Efstratiou, Satrio Yudhoatmojo +2
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary rate of scientific papers on the topic that were discussed among the general public, although often in biased or misinformed wa…
From HODL to MOON: Understanding Community Evolution, Emotional Dynamics, and Price Interplay in the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Kostantinos Papadamou, Jay Patel, Jeremy Blackburn +2
This paper presents a large-scale analysis of the cryptocurrency community on Reddit, shedding light on the intricate relationship between the evolution of their activity, emotiona…
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn +2
Alas, coordinated hate attacks, or raids, are becoming increasingly common online. In a nutshell, these are perpetrated by a group of aggressors who organize and coordinate operati…
Roll in the Tanks! Measuring Left-wing Extremism on Reddit at Scale
Utkucan Balcı, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn
Social media's role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus of intense study. Online extremists have been involved in the dissemination of online hate, mis- and disinfo…
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces
Utkucan Balci, Chen Ling, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and vulnerable groups of people. Platforms built to foster social interaction and engagement have enabled histori…
LAMBRETTA: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
To curb the problem of false information, social media platforms like Twitter started adding warning labels to content discussing debunked narratives, with the goal of providing mo…
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
Alexandros Efstratiou, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield +3
Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chambers and hostile intergroup interactions. In this paper, we explore the relationship between these two phenom…
Why So Toxic? Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots
Wai Man Si, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Chatbots are used in many applications, e.g., automated agents, smart home assistants, interactive characters in online games, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure they do not b…
On Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online
Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes +3
Sinophobia, anti-Chinese sentiment, has existed on the Web for a long time. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the extended quarantine has further amplified it. However, we lack a quanti…
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge
Catherine Jennifer, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the same time, however, they are also increasingly being used to advocate extremism and foster derogatory beliefs.…
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media, often sponsored by state actors aiming to manipulate public opinion on sensitive political topics. Typical…
Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos
Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +1
Short videos have become one of the leading media used by younger generations to express themselves online and thus a driving force in shaping online culture. In this context, TikT…
Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to identify social media posts discussing (known) conspiracy theories. We use 189 conspiracy claims collected by…
Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan's Politically Incorrect Board
Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jeremy Blackburn
The dissemination and reach of scientific knowledge have increased at a blistering pace. In this context, e-Print servers have played a central role by providing scientists with a…
An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new social network platform launched by former US President Donald Trump's team. Among other things, we find that use…
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
Periwinkle Doerfler, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research can receive, it has also facilitated harassment against scholars. To understand the impact that these attac…
A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities
Yuping Wang, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn +3
The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide range of sources with varying levels of trustworthiness, and with public commentary giving different spins t…
An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network
Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a service that allows to "speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your vie…
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes
Chen Ling, Ihab AbuHilal, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not yet have a solid understanding of the elements that might make a meme go viral on social media. In this pap…