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Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci +3
Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is extensively u…
Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Influence Campaigns in Social Media
Luca Luceri, Eric Boniardi, Emilio Ferrara
Social media influence campaigns pose significant challenges to public discourse and democracy. Traditional detection methods fall short due to the complexity and dynamic nature of…
Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Julie Jiang +1
Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unk…
Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter
Luca Luceri, Valeria Pantè, Keith Burghardt +1
Social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have become pivotal arenas for influence campaigns, often orchestrated by state-sponsored information operations (IOs). This paper del…
Social Approval and Network Homophily as Motivators of Online Toxicity
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Joseph B. Walther +1
Online hate messaging is a pervasive issue plaguing the well-being of social media users. This research empirically investigates a novel theory positing that online hate may be dri…
Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media
Tommaso Fornaciari, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara +1
Detecting misinformation threads is crucial to guarantee a healthy environment on social media. We address the problem using the data set created during the COVID-19 pandemic. It c…
Unveiling the Dynamics of Censorship, COVID-19 Regulations, and Protest: An Empirical Study of Chinese Subreddit r/china_irl
Siyi Zhou, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified numerous social issues that warrant academic investigation. Although information dissemination has been extensively studied, the silenced voic…
The Interconnected Nature of Online Harm and Moderation: Investigating the Cross-Platform Spread of Harmful Content between YouTube and Twitter
Valerio La Gatta, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri +1
The proliferation of harmful content shared online poses a threat to online information integrity and the integrity of discussion across platforms. Despite various moderation inter…
Online Networks of Support in Distressed Environments: Solidarity and Mobilization during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Jinyi Ye, Nikhil Jindal, Francesco Pierri +1
Despite their drawbacks and unintended consequences, social media networks have recently emerged as a crucial resource for individuals in distress, particularly during times of cri…
Retrieving false claims on Twitter during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Valerio La Gatta, Chiyu Wei, Luca Luceri +2
Nowadays, false and unverified information on social media sway individuals' perceptions during major geo-political events and threaten the quality of the whole digital information…
Online search is more likely to lead students to validate true news than to refute false ones
Azza Bouleimen, Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso +6
With the spread of high-speed Internet and portable smart devices, the way people access and consume information has drastically changed. However, this presents many challenges, in…
Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up To the US Capitol Attack
Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso +3
The aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential Election witnessed an unprecedented attack on the democratic values of the country through the violent insurrection at Capitol Hill on Jan…