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20162022
most citedWhat Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?: Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement

14 citations · 22 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2022

Counterfactually Augmented Data and Unintended Bias: The Case of Sexism and Hate Speech Detection

Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Claudia Wagner +1

Counterfactually Augmented Data (CAD) aims to improve out-of-domain generalizability, an indicator of model robustness. The improvement is credited with promoting core features of…

cs.CY20228 cited

Pathways through Conspiracy: The Evolution of Conspiracy Radicalization through Engagement in Online Conspiracy Discussions

Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra

The disruptive offline mobilization of participants in online conspiracy theory (CT) discussions has highlighted the importance of understanding how online users may form radicaliz…

cs.CY2021

How Does Counterfactually Augmented Data Impact Models for Social Computing Constructs?

Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Fabian Floeck +2

As NLP models are increasingly deployed in socially situated settings such as online abusive content detection, it is crucial to ensure that these models are robust. One way of imp…

cs.SI2021

Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities

Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra

Online discussion platforms offer a forum to strengthen and propagate belief in misinformed conspiracy theories. Yet, they also offer avenues for conspiracy theorists to express th…

cs.SI202014 cited

What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?: Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement

Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra

Widespread conspiracy theories, like those motivating anti-vaccination attitudes or climate change denial, propel collective action and bear society-wide consequences. Yet, empiric…

cs.SI2016

Community structure and interaction dynamics through the lens of quotes

Mattia Samory, Enoch Peserico

This is the first work investigating community structure and interaction dynamics through the lens of quotes in online discussion forums. We examine four forums of different size,…