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The Anatomy of Conspirators: Unveiling Traits using a Comprehensive Twitter Dataset
Margherita Gambini, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
The discourse around conspiracy theories is currently thriving amidst the rampant misinformation in online environments. Research in this field has been focused on detecting conspi…
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…
Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research
Stefano Cresci, Kai-Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi +3
Research on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation. Yet, social bot research is plagued by widespre…
Modularity-based approach for tracking communities in dynamic social networks
Michele Mazza, Guglielmo Cola, Maurizio Tesconi
Community detection is a crucial task to unravel the intricate dynamics of online social networks. The emergence of these networks has dramatically increased the volume and speed o…
Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Online Behavior: Stability, Archetypes, and Influence
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi +4
Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online beh…