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most citedOnline Political Discourse in the Trump Era

26 citations · 41 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CY201726 cited

Online Political Discourse in the Trump Era

Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill

We identify general trends in the (in)civility and complexity of political discussions occurring on Reddit between January 2007 and May 2017 -- a period spanning both terms of Bara…

cs.CL20179 cited

Measuring Offensive Speech in Online Political Discourse

Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill

The Internet and online forums such as Reddit have become an increasingly popular medium for citizens to engage in political conversations. However, the online disinhibition effect…

cs.CR20173 cited

A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography

Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah +1

Recent years have seen the Internet become a key vehicle for citizens around the globe to express political opinions and organize protests. This fact has not gone unnoticed, with c…

cs.CR2016

Holding all the ASes: Identifying and Circumventing the Pitfalls of AS-aware Tor Client Design

Rishab Nithyanand, Rachee Singh, Shinyoung Cho +1

Traffic correlation attacks to de-anonymize Tor users are possible when an adversary is in a position to observe traffic entering and exiting the Tor network. Recent work has broug…

cs.CR20153 cited

Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

Bridger Hahn, Rishab Nithyanand, Phillipa Gill +1

The Internet has become a critical communication infrastructure for citizens to organize protests and express dissatisfaction with their governments. This fact has not gone unnotic…