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

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cs.CY2026

The Gray Area: Characterizing Moderator Disagreement on Reddit

Shayan Alipour, Shruti Phadke, Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi +3

Volunteer moderators play a crucial role in sustaining online dialogue, but they often disagree about what should or should not be allowed. In this paper, we study the complexity o…

cs.CY2025

Asking For It: Question-Answering for Predicting Rule Infractions in Online Content Moderation

Mattia Samory, Diana Pamfile, Andrew To +1

Online communities rely on a mix of platform policies and community-authored rules to define acceptable behavior and maintain order. However, these rules vary widely across communi…

cs.CY2024

Robustness and Confounders in the Demographic Alignment of LLMs with Human Perceptions of Offensiveness

Shayan Alipour, Indira Sen, Mattia Samory +1

Large language models (LLMs) are known to exhibit demographic biases, yet few studies systematically evaluate these biases across multiple datasets or account for confounding facto…

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…