Conspiracy theories and social media platforms

M Cinelli, G Etta, M Avalle, A Quattrociocchi… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conspiracy theories proliferate online. We provide an overview of information consumption
patterns related to conspiracy content on four mainstream social media platforms (Facebook …

Fake news propagation: A review of epidemic models, datasets, and insights

S Raponi, Z Khalifa, G Oligeri, R Di Pietro - ACM Transactions on the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fake news propagation is a complex phenomenon influenced by a multitude of factors
whose identification and impact assessment is challenging. Although many models have …

Metaverse: Security and privacy issues

R Di Pietro, S Cresci - … conference on trust, privacy and security …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The metaverse promises a host of bright opportunities for business, economics, and society.
Though, a number of critical aspects are still to be considered and the analysis of their …

The efficacy of Facebook's vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

DA Broniatowski, JR Simons, J Gu, AM Jamison… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive
civil unrest. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook—the world's largest …

The covid-19 infodemic: Twitter versus facebook

KC Yang, F Pierri, PM Hui, D Axelrod… - Big Data & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related
misinformation—the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic—that makes populations more …

Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet

KC Yang, F Menczer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16336, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities in generating realistic text
across diverse subjects. Concerns have been raised that they could be utilized to produce …

A survey on multimodal disinformation detection

F Alam, S Cresci, T Chakraborty, F Silvestri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news,
propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about textual …

Make reddit great again: assessing community effects of moderation interventions on r/the_donald

A Trujillo, S Cresci - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The subreddit r/The_Donald was repeatedly denounced as a toxic and misbehaving online
community, reasons for which it faced a sequence of moderation interventions by Reddit …

Coordinated inauthentic behavior and information spreading on Twitter

M Cinelli, S Cresci, W Quattrociocchi, M Tesconi… - Decision Support …, 2022 - Elsevier
We explore the effects of coordinated users (ie, users characterized by an unexpected,
suspicious, or exceptional similarity) in information spreading on Twitter by quantifying the …

Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots

LHX Ng, IJ Cruickshank, KM Carley - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022 - Springer
Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An
average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time …