no code implementations • 18 Oct 2023 • Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West
Overall, our findings suggest that curtailing fringe-interactions may reduce the growth of fringe communities on mainstream platforms.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2023 • Giuseppe Russo, Niklas Stoehr, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Conspiracy Theory Identication task is a new shared task proposed for the first time at the Evalita 2023.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2022 • Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi, Luca Verginer
Specifically, we quantify how these factors affect users' decisions to post on fringe platforms and, for those who do, whether they continue posting on the mainstream platform.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2022 • Giuseppe Russo, Luca Verginer, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi
Using a difference-in-differences design, we contrast co-active users with matched counterparts to estimate the causal effect of fringe platform participation on users' antisocial behavior on Reddit.
no code implementations • 19 May 2022 • Giuseppe Russo, Christoph Gote, Laurence Brandenberger, Sophia Schlosser, Frank Schweitzer
These representations predict active and passive cosponsorship with an F1-score of 0. 88.
1 code implementation • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Giuseppe Russo, Nora Hollenstein, Claudiu Musat, Ce Zhang
We introduce CGA, a conditional VAE architecture, to control, generate, and augment text.