Gianluca Stringhini

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∙ 06/29/2022

SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice

To counter online abuse and misinformation, social media platforms have ...

Mohit Singhal, et al. ∙

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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...

Catherine Jennifer, et al. ∙

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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...

Mohammad Hammas Saeed, et al. ∙

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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...

Chen Ling, et al. ∙

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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...

Pujan Paudel, et al. ∙

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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...

Pujan Paudel, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/10/2021

A Large-scale Temporal Measurement of Android Malicious Apps: Persistence, Migration, and Lessons Learned

We study the temporal dynamics of potentially harmful apps (PHAs) on And...

Yun Shen, et al. ∙

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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...

Periwinkle Doerfler, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/04/2021

Marked for Disruption: Tracing the Evolution of Malware Delivery Operations Targeted for Takedown

The malware and botnet phenomenon is among the most significant threats ...

Colin C. Ife, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/09/2021

ANDRUSPEX : Leveraging Graph Representation Learning to Predict Harmful App Installations on Mobile Devices

Android's security model severely limits the capabilities of anti-malwar...

Yun Shen, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Yuping Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/25/2021

Understanding Worldwide Private Information Collection on Android

Mobile phones enable the collection of a wealth of private information, ...

Yun Shen, et al. ∙

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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...

Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙

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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...

Chen Ling, et al. ∙

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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...

Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙

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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...

Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙

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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...

Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙

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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...

Yuping Wang, et al. ∙

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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...

Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/08/2020

A First Look at Zoombombing

Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to ou...

Chen Ling, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/16/2020

Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites

The Web has become the main source for news acquisition. At the same tim...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/08/2020

"Go eat a bat, Chang!": An Early Look on the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in unprecede...

Leonard Schild, et al. ∙

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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...

Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙

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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...

Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙

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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...

Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/14/2019

Bridging Information Security and Environmental Criminology Research to Better Mitigate Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a complex phenomenon that spans both technical and human a...

Colin C. Ife, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/20/2019

Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media

Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...

Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/29/2019

Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud

Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the...

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/29/2019

ATTACK2VEC: Leveraging Temporal Word Embeddings to Understand the Evolution of Cyberattacks

Despite the fact that cyberattacks are constantly growing in complexity,...

Yun Shen, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/24/2019

Tiresias: Predicting Security Events Through Deep Learning

With the increased complexity of modern computer attacks, there is a nee...

Yun Shen, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/16/2019

Pythia: a Framework for the Automated Analysis of Web Hosting Environments

A common approach when setting up a website is to utilize third party We...

Srdjan Matic, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/15/2019

Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web

Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanis...

Damilola Ibosiola, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/21/2019

Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube

A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...

Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙

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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...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/07/2018

Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls

Over the past few years, extensive anecdotal evidence emerged that sugge...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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...

Juan Echeverría, et al. ∙

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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...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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...

Enrico Mariconti, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/08/2018

Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers

Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents...

Damilola Ibosiola, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/27/2018

You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information

Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our dai...

Beatrice Perez, et al. ∙

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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, ...

Lucky Onwuzurike, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/14/2018

What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?

Over the past few years new "fringe" communities have been created and g...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/31/2018

Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media

Either by ensuring the continuing availability of information, or by del...

Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/24/2018

Eight Years of Rider Measurement in the Android Malware Ecosystem: Evolution and Lessons Learned

Despite the growing threat posed by Android malware, the research commun...

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/20/2017

MaMaDroid: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models (Extended Version)

As Android becomes increasingly popular, so does malware targeting it, t...

Lucky Onwuzurike, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/25/2017

Email Babel: Does Language Affect Criminal Activity in Compromised Webmail Accounts?

We set out to understand the effects of differing language on the abilit...

Emeric Bernard-Jones, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/24/2017

Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying

Over the past few years, online aggression and abusive behaviors have oc...

Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/26/2016

Kissing Cuisines: Exploring Worldwide Culinary Habits on the Web

Food and nutrition occupy an increasingly prevalent space on the web, an...

Sina Sajadmanesh, et al. ∙

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