Search Results for author: Giuseppe Russo

Found 6 papers, 1 papers with code

Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit

no code implementations18 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.

Causal Inference

ACTI at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Conspiracy Theory Identification Task

no code implementations12 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.

Classification Misinformation

Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities

no code implementations9 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.

Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning

no code implementations20 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.

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