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A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
R. Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama +5
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an `infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information…
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…
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…
An Empirical Assessment of Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications
Ruoxi Sun, Wei Wang, Minhui Xue +3
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has made manual contact tracing difficult. Thus, various public health authorities have experimented with automatic contact tracing using mobile applic…
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
Steven R. Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray +1
As an online, crowd-sourced, open English-language slang dictionary, the Urban Dictionary platform contains a wealth of opinions, jokes, and definitions of terms, phrases, acronyms…
A First Instagram Dataset on COVID-19
Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi +1
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak is drastically shaping and reshaping many aspects of our life, with a huge impact on our social life. In this era of lockdown pol…