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Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations
Gian Marco Orlando, Jinyi Ye, Valerio La Gatta +4
Generative agents are rapidly advancing in sophistication, raising urgent questions about how they might coordinate when deployed in online ecosystems. This is particularly consequ…
Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri, Leonardo Blas +1
Online narratives spread unevenly across platforms, with content emerging on one site often appearing on others, hours, days or weeks later. Existing cross-platform information dif…
Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri +1
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented in…
A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch
Gianluca Nogara, Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Matthew R. DeVerna +5
Bluesky is a decentralized, Twitter-like social media platform that has rapidly gained popularity. Following an invite-only phase, it officially opened to the public on February 6t…
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection in a Video-First Ecosystem
Luca Luceri, Tanishq Vijay Salkar, Ashwin Balasubramanian +3
Detecting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) is central to the study of online influence operations. However, most methods focus on text-centric platforms, leaving video-first…
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Valeria Pantè, David Axelrod, Alessandro Flammini +3
Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strategic, collective actions. While p…
Network-informed Prompt Engineering against Organized Astroturf Campaigns under Extreme Class Imbalance
Nikos Kanakaris, Heng Ping, Xiongye Xiao +4
Detecting organized political campaigns is of paramount importance in fighting against disinformation on social media. Existing approaches for the identification of such organized…
Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X
Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Beverlyn Tsai +2
Despite widespread concerns about the risks of AI-generated content (AIGC) to the integrity of social media discourse, little is known about its scale and scope, the actors respons…
Audit of takedown delays across social media reveals failure to reduce exposure to illegal content
Bao Tran Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Gianluca Nogara +7
Illegal content on social media poses significant societal harm and necessitates timely removal. However, the impact of the speed of content removal on prevalence, reach, and expos…