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Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to identify social media posts discussing (known) conspiracy theories. We use 189 conspiracy claims collected by…
An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network
Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a service that allows to "speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your vie…
Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites
Savvas Zannettou, Mai ElSherief, Elizabeth Belding +2
The Web has become the main source for news acquisition. At the same time, news discussion has become more social: users can post comments on news articles or discuss news articles…
"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…
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide have been expo…
Characterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Barry Bradlyn +3
State-sponsored organizations are increasingly linked to efforts aimed to exploit social media for information warfare and manipulating public opinion. Typically, their activities…