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"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...
01/18/2021 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙
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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. ∙
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An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network
Parler is as an alternative social network promoting itself as a service...
01/11/2021 ∙ by Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites
The Web has become the main source for news acquisition. At the same tim...
05/16/2020 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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Towards Understanding the Information Ecosystem Through the Lens of Multiple Web Communities
The Web consists of numerous Web communities, news sources, and services...
11/24/2019 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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Killing the Password and Preserving Privacy with Device-Centric and Attribute-based Authentication
Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First...
11/20/2018 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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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. ∙
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