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YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English-Speaking YouTube
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West
YouTube plays a key role in entertaining and informing people around the globe. However, studying the platform is difficult due to the lack of randomly sampled data and of systemat…
Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis
Kristina Gligorić, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Martin Müller +5
Timely access to accurate information is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prompted by key stakeholders' cautioning against an "infodemic", we study information sharing on Twit…
Message Distortion in Information Cascades
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Robert West
Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be…
"Like Sheep Among Wolves": Characterizing Hateful Users on Twitter
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Pedro H. Calais, Yuri A. Santos +2
Hateful speech in Online Social Networks (OSNs) is a key challenge for companies and governments, as it impacts users and advertisers, and as several countries have strict legislat…
"Everything I Disagree With is #FakeNews": Correlating Political Polarization and Spread of Misinformation
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Pedro H. Calais, Virgílio A. F. Almeida +1
An important challenge in the process of tracking and detecting the dissemination of misinformation is to understand the political gap between people that engage with the so called…