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FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Spithouris, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machin…
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Facebook Web Tracking with Invisible Pixels and Click IDs
Paschalis Bekos, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Over the past years, advertisement companies have used various tracking methods to persistently track users across the web. Such tracking methods usually include first and third-pa…
YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children
Myrsini Gkolemi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
In the last years, hundreds of new Youtube channels have been creating and sharing videos targeting children, with themes related to animation, superhero movies, comics, etc. Unfor…
Leveraging Google's Publisher-specific IDs to Detect Website Administration
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Digital advertising is the most popular way for content monetization on the Internet. Publishers spawn new websites, and older ones change hands with the sole purpose of monetizing…
Who Funds Misinformation? A Systematic Analysis of the Ad-related Profit Routines of Fake News sites
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Fake news is an age-old phenomenon, widely assumed to be associated with political propaganda published to sway public opinion. Yet, with the growth of social media, it has become…