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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"Go eat a bat, Chang!": On the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19
Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Leonard Schild, Chen Ling +4
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in unprecedented ways. In the face of the projected catastrophic consequences, many countries have enacted social distan…
The Pushshift Telegram Dataset
Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Megan Squire +1
Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become increasingly ubiquitous in society. These mobile messaging platforms can have deceivingly large user bases, a…
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Brian Keegan +2
Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding. However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media data in…
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide have been expo…
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Inappropriate Videos Targeting Young Children
Kostantinos Papadamou, Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou +5
A large number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels target children of a very young age. Hundreds of toddler-oriented channels on YouTube feature inoffensive, well-produced, and…
Characterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Barry Bradlyn +3
State-sponsored organizations are increasingly linked to efforts aimed to exploit social media for information warfare and manipulating public opinion. Typically, their activities…
Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer +3
Recent evidence has emerged linking coordinated campaigns by state-sponsored actors to manipulate public opinion on the Web. Campaigns revolving around major political events are e…
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper…
The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn +1
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false information campaig…
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?
Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +4
Over the past few years, a number of new "fringe" communities, like 4chan or certain subreddits, have gained traction on the Web at a rapid pace. However, more often than not, litt…
Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior
Antigoni-Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou +6
In recent years, offensive, abusive and hateful language, sexism, racism and other types of aggressive and cyberbullying behavior have been manifesting with increased frequency, an…
"23andMe confirms: I'm super white" -- Analyzing Twitter Discourse On Genetic Testing
Alexandros Mittos, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Recent progress in genomics is bringing genetic testing to the masses. Participatory public initiatives are underway to sequence the genome of millions of volunteers, and a new mar…
Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
Over the past couple of years, anecdotal evidence has emerged linking coordinated campaigns by state-sponsored actors with efforts to manipulate public opinion on the Web, often ar…
Hate is not Binary: Studying Abusive Behavior of #GamerGate on Twitter
Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Over the past few years, online bullying and aggression have become increasingly prominent, and manifested in many different forms on social media. However, there is little work an…
The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5
As the number and the diversity of news outlets on the Web grow, so does the opportunity for "alternative" sources of information to emerge. Using large social networks like Twitte…
Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying
Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn +3
Over the past few years, online aggression and abusive behaviors have occurred in many different forms and on a variety of platforms. In extreme cases, these incidents have evolved…
Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web
Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5
The discussion-board site 4chan has been part of the Internet's dark underbelly since its inception, and recent political events have put it increasingly in the spotlight. In parti…
Linguistic Analysis of Toxic Behavior in an Online Video Game
Haewoon Kwak, Jeremy Blackburn
In this paper we explore the linguistic components of toxic behavior by using crowdsourced data from over 590 thousand cases of accused toxic players in a popular match-based compe…