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Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities
Kristina Lerman, Minh Duc Chu, Charles Bickham +2
Social media platforms have become critical spaces for discussing mental health concerns, including eating disorders. While these platforms can provide valuable support networks, t…
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar +3
This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale, resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics.…
IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri +1
Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives. However, their open natur…
Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations
Ozgur Can Seckin, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala +4
Social media platforms have become a hub for political activities and discussions, democratizing participation in these endeavors. However, they have also become an incubator for m…
Unfiltered Conversations: A Dataset of 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Discourse on Truth Social
Kashish Shah, Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri +1
Truth Social, launched as a social media platform with a focus on free speech, has become a prominent space for political discourse, attracting a user base with diverse, yet often…
Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Approximately 50% of tweets in X's user timelines are personalized recommendations from accounts they do not follow. This raises a critical question: What political content are use…
A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X
Ashwin Balasubramanian, Vito Zou, Hitesh Narayana +3
In this paper, we introduce the first release of a large-scale dataset capturing discourse on (a.k.a., Twitter) related to the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election…
Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset
Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
With its lenient moderation policies and long-standing associations with potentially unlawful activities, Telegram has become an incubator for problematic content, frequently featu…
Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Federico Cinus +1
Information Operations (IOs) pose a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes, with the potential to influence election-related online discourse. In anticipation…
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Federico Cinus, Marco Minici, Luca Luceri +1
Coordinated information operations remain a persistent challenge on social media, despite platform efforts to curb them. While previous research has primarily focused on identifyin…
The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening
Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Gianluca Nogara, Matthew R. DeVerna +5
Bluesky is a Twitter-like decentralized social media platform that has recently grown in popularity. After an invite-only period, it opened to the public worldwide on February 6th,…
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on Tiktok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar +2
This paper documents our release of a large-scale data collection of TikTok posts related to the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Our current data comprises 1.8 million vi…
The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang +1
Understanding susceptibility to online influence is crucial for mitigating the spread of misinformation and protecting vulnerable audiences. This paper investigates susceptibility…
Coordinated Activity Modulates the Behavior and Emotions of Organic Users: A Case Study on Tweets about the Gaza Conflict
Priyanka Dey, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Social media has become a crucial conduit for the swift dissemination of information during global crises. However, this also paves the way for the manipulation of narratives by ma…
Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci +2
The kick-off of vaccination campaigns in Europe, starting in late December 2020, has been followed by the online spread of controversies and conspiracies surrounding vaccine validi…
Moral Values Underpinning COVID-19 Online Communication Patterns
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered profound societal changes, extending beyond its health impacts to the moralization of behaviors. Leveraging insights from moral psychology, this…