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03/03/2023
Likes and Fragments: Examining Perceptions of Time Spent on TikTok
Researchers use information about the amount of time people spend on dig...
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01/12/2023
Leveraging Rights of Data Subjects for Social Media Analysis: Studying TikTok via Data Donations
TikTok is a relatively novel and widely popular media platform. In respo...
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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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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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01/21/2022
Understanding and Detecting Hateful Content using Contrastive Learning
The spread of hate speech and hateful imagery on the Web is a significan...
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01/19/2022
"Learn the Facts About COVID-19": Analyzing the Use of Warning Labels on TikTok Videos
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health-related misinformation and harmful ...
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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
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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09/20/2021
What do fact checkers fact-check when?
Recent research suggests that not all fact checking efforts are equal: w...
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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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05/27/2021
On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that became popular and mainstrea...
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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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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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01/18/2021
"I Won the Election!": An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter
Over the past few years, there is a heated debate and serious public con...
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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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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...
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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...
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01/23/2020
The Pushshift Telegram Dataset
Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become i...
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01/23/2020
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific un...
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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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11/24/2019
Towards Understanding the Information Ecosystem Through the Lens of Multiple Web Communities
The Web consists of numerous Web communities, news sources, and services...
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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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01/21/2019
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube
A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
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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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11/20/2018
Killing the Password and Preserving Privacy with Device-Centric and Attribute-based Authentication
Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First...
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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...
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09/05/2018
A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism
A new wave of growing antisemitism, driven by fringe Web communities, is...
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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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04/10/2018
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 ...
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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...
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01/31/2018