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"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn +3
The role played by YouTube's recommendation algorithm in unwittingly promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories is not entirely understood. Yet, this can have dire real-world…
Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou +4
When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation measures, such as bans, they may migrate to other platforms with laxer policies or set up their own dedicated…
Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter
Erik Rye, Jeremy Blackburn, Robert Beverly
Efforts by content creators and social networks to enforce legal and policy-based norms, e.g. blocking hate speech and users, has driven the rise of unrestricted communication plat…
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online discourse, the role played by images in disinformation is still not well understood. In this paper, we present th…
A First Look at Zoombombing
Chen Ling, Utkucan Balcı, Jeremy Blackburn +1
Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to our professional, educational, and personal lives. This has opened up new opportunities for large scale harass…
"Is it a Qoincidence?": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat
Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini +2
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users seeking and sharing ideas fueling suspicion of mainstream news and conspiracy theories. Among these, the QAnon conspiracy…
"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…
"How over is it?" Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn +3
YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content worldwide. Alas, the platform has also come under fire for hosting inappropriate, toxic, and hateful content. One…
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn +5
In this paper, we present a large-scale characterization of the Manosphere, a conglomerate of Web-based misogynist movements roughly focused on "men's issues," which has seen signi…
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3M threads and 134.5M posts from the Politically Incorrect board (/pol/) of the imageboard forum 4chan, posted over a period of almost 3.5…