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Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer +3
Recent evidence has emerged linking coordinated campaigns by state-sponsored actors to manipulate public opinion on the Web. Campaigns revolving around major political events are e…
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Juan Echeverría, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis +3
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the regular flow of discussion, attacking regular users and their posts, spamming them with irrelevant or offensi…
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper…
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Video sharing platforms like YouTube are increasingly targeted by aggression and hate attacks. Prior work has shown how these attacks often take place as a result of "raids," i.e.,…
Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers
Damilola Ibosiola, Benjamin Steer, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero +3
Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents on both sides of the argument. Recently, a number of illegal websites, called streaming cyberlockers, have…
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?
Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro +4
Over the past few years, a number of new "fringe" communities, like 4chan or certain subreddits, have gained traction on the Web at a rapid pace. However, more often than not, litt…