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20142024
most citedWhat is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?

210 citations · 1.1k across the 63 of their papers we have counts for

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72 papers

cs.CV2024

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…

cs.SI2024

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…

cs.SI2023

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…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CR2022

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…

cs.CY2022★ 2 cited

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…