1 code implementation • 12 Jul 2021 • Hanyu Shi, Mirela Silva, Daniel Capecci, Luiz Giovanini, Lauren Czech, Juliana Fernandes, Daniela Oliveira
Phishing and disinformation are popular social engineering attacks with attackers invariably applying influence cues in texts to make them more appealing to users.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Mirela Silva, Luiz Giovanini, Juliana Fernandes, Daniela Oliveira, Catia S. Silva
This paper examines 3, 517 Facebook ads created by Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) between June 2015 and August 2017 in its active measures disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 U. S. general election.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Mirela Silva, Fabrício Ceschin, Prakash Shrestha, Christopher Brant, Shlok Gilda, Juliana Fernandes, Catia S. Silva, André Grégio, Daniela Oliveira, Luiz Giovanini
We found that (i) factual tweets, regardless of whether COVID-related, were more engaging than misinformation tweets; and (ii) features that most heavily correlated with engagement varied depending on the veracity and content of the tweet.