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Assessing the Reliability of Persona-Conditioned LLMs as Synthetic Survey Respondents
Erika Elizabeth Taday Morocho, Lorenzo Cima, Tiziano Fagni +2
Using persona-conditioned LLMs as synthetic survey respondents has become a common practice in computational social science and agent-based simulations. Yet, it remains unclear whe…
Investigating the heterogenous effects of a massive content moderation intervention via Difference-in-Differences
Lorenzo Cima, Benedetta Tessa, Stefano Cresci +2
In today's online environments, users encounter harm and abuse on a daily basis. Therefore, content moderation is crucial to ensure their safety and well-being. However, the effect…
Beyond Trial-and-Error: Predicting User Abandonment After a Moderation Intervention
Benedetta Tessa, Lorenzo Cima, Amaury Trujillo +2
Current content moderation follows a reactive, trial-and-error approach, where interventions are applied and their effects are only measured post-hoc. In contrast, we introduce a p…
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…
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…