1 code implementation • 21 Jan 2025 • Nikos Kanakaris, Heng Ping, Xiongye Xiao, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Paul Bogdan
Then, through prompt engineering and the proposed Balanced RAG method, it effectively detects coordinated disinformation campaigns on X (Twitter).
1 code implementation • 19 Dec 2024 • Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri, Emilio Ferrara
Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agor\`as where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives.
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