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08/09/2023
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities
Alas, coordinated hate attacks, or raids, are becoming increasingly comm...
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05/18/2023
Understanding how Differentially Private Generative Models Spend their Privacy Budget
Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) are increasingl...
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04/18/2023
BadVFL: Backdoor Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) enables multiple parties to collaboratively trai...
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03/13/2023
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and v...
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03/01/2023
What Is Synthetic Data? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. How...
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12/12/2022
LAMBRETTA: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
To curb the problem of false information, social media platforms like Tw...
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11/25/2022
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chamb...
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09/07/2022
Why So Toxic? Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots
Chatbots are used in many applications, e.g., automated agents, smart ho...
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09/07/2022
Cerberus: Exploring Federated Prediction of Security Events
Modern defenses against cyberattacks increasingly rely on proactive appr...
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06/30/2022
Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes
Previous work suggests that people's preference for different kinds of i...
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04/27/2022
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses t...
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02/17/2022
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge
Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the sa...
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12/01/2021
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media...
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11/03/2021
"We won't even challenge their lefty academic definition of racist:" Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan
The dissemination and the reach of scientific knowledge have increased a...
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11/03/2021
Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos
Short videos have become one of the leading media used by younger genera...
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11/03/2021
Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to id...
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10/26/2021
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particul...
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09/23/2021
Robin Hood and Matthew Effects – Differential Privacy Has Disparate Impact on Synthetic Data
Generative models trained using Differential Privacy (DP) are increasing...
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08/12/2021
An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network
This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new socia...
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04/22/2021
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research...
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03/05/2021
A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities
The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide ...
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02/05/2021
Measuring Utility and Privacy of Synthetic Genomic Data
Genomic data provides researchers with an invaluable source of informati...
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02/04/2021
ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models
Inference attacks against Machine Learning (ML) models allow adversaries...
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01/21/2021
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
The QAnon conspiracy theory claims that a cabal of (literally) bloodthir...
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01/16/2021
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes
Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not...
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01/11/2021
An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network
Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a servi...
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10/22/2020
"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
YouTube has revolutionized the way people discover and consume videos, b...
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10/20/2020
Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation me...
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09/24/2020
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online disco...
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09/10/2020
"Is it a Qoincidence?": A First Step Towards Understanding and Characterizing the QAnon Movement on Voat.co
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users to seek and sh...
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09/08/2020
Toward Robustness and Privacy in Federated Learning: Experimenting with Local and Central Differential Privacy
Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participants to collaboratively ...
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05/18/2020
An Overview of Privacy in Machine Learning
Over the past few years, providers such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon...
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01/22/2020
Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content world...
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01/21/2020
From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere
Over the past few years, a number of "fringe" online communities have be...
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01/21/2020
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3M threads and 134.5M posts fr...
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01/20/2020
On the Feasibility of Acoustic Attacks Using Commodity Smart Devices
Sound at frequencies above (ultrasonic) or below (infrasonic) the range ...
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09/12/2019
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a ...
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08/29/2019
How Much Does GenoGuard Really "Guard"? An Empirical Analysis of Long-Term Security for Genomic Data
Due to its hereditary nature, genomic data is not only linked to its own...
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07/20/2019
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...
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02/20/2019
Under the Hood of Membership Inference Attacks on Aggregate Location Time-Series
Aggregate location statistics are used in a number of mobility analytics...
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01/28/2019
"And We Will Fight For Our Race!'" A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan
Rapid progress in genomics has enabled a thriving market for "direct-to-...
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01/17/2019
Characterizing the Use of Images by State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Twitter
Anecdotal evidence has emerged suggesting that state-sponsored organizat...
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10/05/2018
On Collaborative Predictive Blacklisting
Collaborative predictive blacklisting (CPB) allows to forecast future at...
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09/25/2018
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the r...
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05/31/2018
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate pub...
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05/21/2018
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Over the years, the Web has shrunk the world, allowing individuals to sh...
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05/10/2018
Inference Attacks Against Collaborative Learning
Collaborative machine learning and related techniques such as distribute...
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04/29/2018
Of Wines and Reviews: Measuring and Modeling the Vivino Wine Social Network
This paper presents an analysis of social experiences around wine consum...
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03/09/2018
A Family of Droids: Analyzing Behavioral Model based Android Malware Detection via Static and Dynamic Analysis
As smartphones play an increasingly central role in our everyday lives, ...
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02/14/2018