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Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti +2
Coordinated online behaviors are an essential part of information and influence operations, as they allow a more effective disinformation's spread. Most studies on coordinated beha…
Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti +3
Cryptocurrencies represent one of the most attractive markets for financial speculation. As a consequence, they have attracted unprecedented attention on social media. Besides genu…
RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter
Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti +2
Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study re…
Spotting the diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances over the Internet
Fabio Del Vigna, Marco Avvenuti, Clara Bacciu +4
Online availability and diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) represent an emerging threat to healthcare systems. In this work, we analyse drugs forums, online shops, and…