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Taking Back Our Commons: Social Media APIs as Subversive Tools

Our actual internet landscape is dominated by a handful of private actors we use on a daily basis: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, amongst others. These actors, in constant search of an optimization of their data transmission processes and user experiences, ...

2023

The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation

Tugrulcan Elmas

In recent years we have seen a marked increase in disinformation including as part of a strategy of so-called hybrid warfare. Adversaries not only directly spread misleading content but manipulate social media by employing sophisticated techniques that exp ...

EPFL2022

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

Detecting manipulations in facial images and video has become an increasingly popular topic in media forensics community. At the same time, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved exceptional results on deepfake detection tasks. Despite the remark ...

2022

Learning Graph Influence From Social Interactions

Ali H. Sayed, Virginia Bordignon, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

In social learning, agents form their opinions or beliefs about certain hypotheses by exchanging local information. This work considers the recent paradigm of weak graphs, where the network is partitioned into sending and receiving components, with the for ...

IEEE2020

This paper brings together machine learning and investigative journalism to examine sockpuppets accounts, a historical breed of fake accounts that are non-automated and human-controlled. Due to their flexible and human-centered nature, sockpuppets pose a c ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Social platforms became a major source of rumours. While rumours can have severe real-world implications, their detection is notoriously hard: Content on social platforms is short and lacks semantics; it spreads quickly through a dynamically evolving netwo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Graph-based Rumour Detection for Social Media

Thành Tâm Nguyên

2019

Fighting Rumours on Social Media

Chi Thang Duong

With the advance of social platforms, people are sharing contents in an unprecedented scale. This makes social platforms an ideal place for spreading rumors. As rumors may have negative impacts on the real world, many rumor detection techniques have been p ...

2018

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