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Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram Conspiracy Spheres through Message Forwarding
Lorenzo Alvisi, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Telegram has grown into a significant platform for news and information sharing, favored for its anonymity and minimal moderation. This openness, however, makes it vulnerable to mi…
The Emotions of the Crowd: Learning Image Sentiment from Tweets via Cross-modal Distillation
Alessio Serra, Fabio Carrara, Maurizio Tesconi +1
Trends and opinion mining in social media increasingly focus on novel interactions involving visual media, like images and short videos, in addition to text. In this work, we tackl…
MulBot: Unsupervised Bot Detection Based on Multivariate Time Series
Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Anna Monreale +2
Online social networks are actively involved in the removal of malicious social bots due to their role in the spread of low quality information. However, most of the existing bot d…
Tweets2Stance: Users stance detection exploiting Zero-Shot Learning Algorithms on Tweets
Margherita Gambini, Tiziano Fagni, Caterina Senette +1
In the last years there has been a growing attention towards predicting the political orientation of active social media users, being this of great help to study political forecast…
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…