Jeremy Blackburn

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...
01/21/2021 ∙ by Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes

Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not...
01/16/2021 ∙ by Chen Ling, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network

Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a servi...
01/11/2021 ∙ by Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
10/22/2020 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels

When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation me...
10/20/2020 ∙ by Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media

Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online disco...
09/24/2020 ∙ by Yuping Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
09/10/2020 ∙ by Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A First Look at Zoombombing

Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to ou...
09/08/2020 ∙ by Chen Ling, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter

Efforts by content creators and social networks to enforce legal and pol...
09/03/2020 ∙ by Erik Rye, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
04/08/2020 ∙ by Leonard Schild, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Pushshift Telegram Dataset

Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become i...
01/23/2020 ∙ by Jason Baumgartner, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Pushshift Reddit Dataset

Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific un...
01/23/2020 ∙ by Jason Baumgartner, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube

YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content world...
01/22/2020 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
01/21/2020 ∙ by Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
01/21/2020 ∙ by Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media

Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...
07/20/2019 ∙ by Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Diffusing Your Mobile Apps: Extending In-Network Function Virtualization to Mobile Function Offloading

Motivated by the huge disparity between the limited battery capacity of ...
06/14/2019 ∙ by Mario Almeida, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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EYEORG: A Platform For Crowdsourcing Web Quality Of Experience Measurements

Tremendous effort has gone into the ongoing battle to make webpages load...
02/07/2019 ∙ by Matteo Varvello, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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-...
01/28/2019 ∙ by Alexandros Mittos, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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

A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
01/21/2019 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Characterizing the Use of Images by State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Twitter

Anecdotal evidence has emerged suggesting that state-sponsored organizat...
01/17/2019 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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

Over the past few years, extensive anecdotal evidence emerged that sugge...
11/07/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism

A new wave of growing antisemitism, driven by fringe Web communities, is...
09/05/2018 ∙ by Joel Finkelstein, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities

Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate pub...
05/31/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
05/21/2018 ∙ by Enrico Mariconti, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including ...
04/10/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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, ...
03/09/2018 ∙ by Lucky Onwuzurike, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
02/14/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection

Hate speech, offensive language, sexism, racism and other types of abusi...
02/01/2018 ∙ by Antigoni-Maria Founta, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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

Either by ensuring the continuing availability of information, or by del...
01/31/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"23andMe confirms: I'm super white" -- Analyzing Twitter Discourse On Genetic Testing

Recent progress in genomics is bringing genetic testing to the masses, a...
01/30/2018 ∙ by Alexandros Mittos, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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

Over the past few years, online aggression and abusive behaviors have oc...
02/24/2017 ∙ by Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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