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"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…
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online discourse, the role played by images in disinformation is still not well understood. In this paper, we present th…
A First Look at Zoombombing
Chen Ling, Utkucan Balcı, Jeremy Blackburn +1
Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to our professional, educational, and personal lives. This has opened up new opportunities for large scale harass…
"Is it a Qoincidence?": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat
Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini +2
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users seeking and sharing ideas fueling suspicion of mainstream news and conspiracy theories. Among these, the QAnon conspiracy…
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…