Tweets in time of conflict: A public dataset tracking the twitter discourse on the war between Ukraine and Russia

E Chen, E Ferrara - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the days that followed, reports
kept flooding in from laymen to news anchors of a conflict quickly escalating into war. Russia …

Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia's contradictory discourse of imperial identity

V Tolz, S Hutchings - Post-Soviet Affairs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses
whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to …

How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events

F Pierri, L Luceri, E Chen, E Ferrara - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their
implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery …

Advancing beyond identification: Multi-bit watermark for language models

KY Yoo, W Ahn, N Kwak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00221, 2023 - arxiv.org
This study aims to proactively tackle misuse of large language models beyond identification
of machine-generated text. While existing methods focus on detection, some malicious …

Unmasking the web of deceit: Uncovering coordinated activity to expose information operations on twitter

L Luceri, V Pantè, K Burghardt, E Ferrara - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have become pivotal arenas for influence
campaigns, often orchestrated by state-sponsored information operations (IOs). This paper …

The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter

Y Xia, A Gronow, A Malkamäki, T Ylä-Anttila… - EPJ Data …, 2024 - epjds.epj.org
It is often thought that an external threat increases the internal cohesion of a nation, and thus
decreases polarization. We examine this proposition by analyzing NATO discussion …

Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure

J Ye, L Luceri, J Jiang, E Ferrara - Proceedings of the ACM on Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of
online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unknowingly …

Characterizing the 2022-Russo-Ukrainian conflict through the lenses of aspect-based sentiment analysis: dataset, methodology, and key findings

M Caprolu, A Sadighian… - 2023 32nd international …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online social networks (OSNs) play a crucial role in modern society by supporting free
expression, information sharing, and social movement organization. However, they are also …

Retrieving false claims on Twitter during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

V La Gatta, C Wei, L Luceri, F Pierri… - … Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, false and unverified information on social media sway individuals' perceptions
during major geo-political events and threaten the quality of the whole digital information …

Social-LLM: Modeling User Behavior at Scale using Language Models and Social Network Data

J Jiang, E Ferrara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00893, 2023 - arxiv.org
The proliferation of social network data has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for
extensive, data-driven exploration of human behavior. The structural intricacies of social …