Deplatforming refers to the permanent ban of controversial public figures with large
followings on social media sites. In recent years, platforms like Facebook, Twitter and …

We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity
by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic machine learning approach. Our …

The wide spread of unfounded election fraud claims surrounding the US 2020 election had
resulted in undermining of trust in the election, culminating in violence inside the US capitol …

Disinformation campaigns on social media, involving coordinated activities from malicious
accounts towards manipulating public opinion, have become increasingly prevalent …

It has become apparent that human accounts are not the sole actors in the social media
scenario. The expanding role of social media in the consumption and diffusion of information …

Since the 2016 US Presidential election, social media abuse has been eliciting massive
concern in the academic community and beyond. Preventing and limiting the malicious …

Fake accounts are the primary means for misuse and abuse of social media platforms,
giving rise to coordinated inauthentic behaviors. Despite ongoing efforts to limit their …

Recent research brought awareness of the issue of bots on social media and the significant
risks of mass manipulation of public opinion in the context of political discussion. In this …

Since the dawn of Humanity, the progress machine tirelessly introduced tools and resources
that facilitated our everyday tasks. Over the years, new technologies have continually …

Online social media have become one of the main communication platforms for political
discussion. The online ecosystem, however, does not only include human users but has …