Savvas Zannettou

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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...

0 Angelica Goetzen, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Pujan Paudel, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Alexandros Efstratiou, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Wai Man Si, 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...

0 Catherine Jennifer, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Felipe González-Pizarro, et al. ∙

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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 ...

0 Chen Ling, 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...

0 Mohammad Hammas Saeed, 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...

0 Pujan Paudel, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Manoel Horta Ribeiro, 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...

0 Pujan Paudel, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Mohamad Hoseini, 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 ...

0 Yuping Wang, 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...

0 Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, 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...

0 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...

0 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...

0 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...

0 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...

0 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...

0 Antonis Papasavva, 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...

0 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...

0 Leonard Schild, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/23/2020

The Pushshift Telegram Dataset

Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become i...

0 Jason Baumgartner, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/23/2020

The Pushshift Reddit Dataset

Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific un...

0 Jason Baumgartner, 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...

0 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...

0 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...

0 Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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-...

0 Alexandros Mittos, 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...

0 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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Kostantinos Papadamou, 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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Joel Finkelstein, 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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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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 ...

0 Savvas Zannettou, 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...

0 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...

0 Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙

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