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A null model to detect coordinated online behavior integrating evidence from multiple indicators
Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote, Lake Yin +5
Coordinated online accounts can amplify messages and manipulate attention, but detecting such behavior is challenging due to confounding factors like account activity and item popu…
"If It Looks Like a User": Measuring Real-Time Moderation Effects via Social Media Simulation
Enrico Verdolotti, Gianluca Nogara, Luca Luceri +1
Agent-based social media simulators offer a controlled environment to study content moderation, yet their value hinges on how faithfully they reproduce real platform dynamics. We d…
Predicting, Evaluating, and Explaining Top Misinformation Spreaders via Archetypal User Behavior
Enrico Verdolotti, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
The spread of misinformation on social networks poses a significant challenge to online communities and society at large. Not all users contribute equally to this phenomenon: a sma…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote +8
Coordinated campaigns on social media play a critical role in shaping crisis information environments, particularly during the onset of conflicts when uncertainty is high and verif…
What do people want to fact-check?
Bijean Ghafouri, Dorsaf Sallami, Luca Luceri +4
Research on misinformation has focused almost exclusively on supply, asking what falsehoods circulate, who produces them, and whether corrections work. A basic demand-side question…
Harm in AI-Driven Societies: An Audit of Toxicity Adoption on Chirper.ai
Erica Coppolillo, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in autonomous agents that engage, converse, and co-evolve in online social platforms. While prior work has documented the gen…