no code implementations • 18 Nov 2023 • Saurav Joshi, Filip Ilievski, Luca Luceri
Internet memes have emerged as a novel format for communication and expressing ideas on the web.
1 code implementation • 14 Nov 2023 • Luca Luceri, Eric Boniardi, Emilio Ferrara
Social media influence campaigns pose significant challenges to public discourse and democracy.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2023 • Tommaso Fornaciari, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Dirk Hovy
Keeping track of the sequence of the interactions during the time, we improve over previous state-of-the-art models.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2022 • Abhinav Kumar Thakur, Filip Ilievski, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Zhivar Sourati, Luca Luceri, Riccardo Tommasini, Alain Mermoud
In the current context where online platforms have been effectively weaponized in a variety of geo-political events and social issues, Internet memes make fair content moderation at scale even more difficult.
3 code implementations • 17 Oct 2022 • Fatima Ezzeddine, Luca Luceri, Omran Ayoub, Ihab Sbeity, Gianluca Nogara, Emilio Ferrara, Silvia Giordano
The detection of state-sponsored trolls operating in influence campaigns on social media is a critical and unsolved challenge for the research community, which has significant implications beyond the online realm.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2020 • Samar Haider, Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Nanyun Peng, Emilio Ferrara
Social media have been deliberately used for malicious purposes, including political manipulation and disinformation.
1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2020 • Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano, Emilio Ferrara
Since the 2016 US Presidential election, social media abuse has been eliciting massive concern in the academic community and beyond.
1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2019 • Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara
We studied bot interactions with humans and observed different strategies.
Social and Information Networks
1 code implementation • 31 Jan 2019 • Ashok Deb, Luca Luceri, Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara
One of the hallmarks of a free and fair society is the ability to conduct a peaceful and seamless transfer of power from one leader to another.
Social and Information Networks