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Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos
Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +1
Short videos have become one of the leading media used by younger generations to express themselves online and thus a driving force in shaping online culture. In this context, TikT…
An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new social network platform launched by former US President Donald Trump's team. Among other things, we find that use…
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
Periwinkle Doerfler, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research can receive, it has also facilitated harassment against scholars. To understand the impact that these attac…
A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities
Yuping Wang, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn +3
The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide range of sources with varying levels of trustworthiness, and with public commentary giving different spins t…
"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…