Publications
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2024
Karan Vombatkere, Sepehr Mousavi, Savvas Zannettou, Franziska Roesner, Krishna P. Gummadi
TikTok and the Art of Personalization: Investigating Exploration and Exploitation on Social Media Feeds
The Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024)
Salim Chouaki, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Oana Goga, Savvas Zannettou
What News Do People Get on Social Media? Analyzing Exposure and Consumption of News through Data Donations
The Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024)
Savvas Zannettou, Olivia Nemes-Nemeth, Oshrat Ayalon, Angelica Goetzen, Krishna P. Gummadi, Elissa Redmiles, Franziska Roesner
Analyzing User Engagement with TikTok’s Short Format Video Recommendations using Data Donations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)
Daniel Kansaon, Philipe Melo, Savvas Zannettou, Fabricio Benevenuto
Strategies and Attacks of Digital Militias in WhatsApp Political Groups
18th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto, Anja Feldmann, Savvas Zannettou
Characterizing Information Propagation in Fringe Communities on Telegram
18th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
Philipe Melo, Mohamad Hoseini, Savvas Zannettou, Fabricio Benevenuto
Don’t Break the Chain: Measuring Message Forwarding on WhatsApp
18th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
Xinlei He, Savvas Zannettou, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
You Only Prompt Once: On the Capabilities of Prompt Learning on Large Language Models to Tackle Toxic Content
45th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2024)
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Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Gianluca Stringhini
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities. 18th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
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Ashwaq Alsoubai, Afsaneh Razi, Zainab Agha, Shiza Ali, Gianluca Stringhini, Munmun De Chouwdhury, and Pamela Wisniewski
Profiling the Offline and Online Risk Experiences of Youth to Develop Targeted Interventions for Online Safety
27th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024)
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2023
Esraa Aldreabi, Justin M. Lee, Jeremy Blackburn
Using Deep Learning to Detect Islamophobia on Reddit
36th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2023)
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Yiting Qu, Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
Unsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models
30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2023)
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Mohit Singhal, Chen Ling, Pujan Paudel, Poojitha Thota, Nihal Kumarswamy, Gianluca Stringhini, and Shirin Nilizadeh
SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023)
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Yuping Wang, Chen Ling, and Gianluca Stringhini
Understanding the Use of Images to Spread COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter
26th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2023)
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Shiza Ali, Afsaneh Razi, Seunghyun Kim, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Chen Ling, Munmun De Chowdhury, Pamela Wisniewski, and Gianluca Stringhini
Getting Meta: A Multimodal Approach for Detecting Unsafe Conversations within Instagram Direct Messages of Youth
26th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2023)
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Afsaneh Razi, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Seunghyun Kim, Shiza Ali, Gianluca Stringhini, Munmun De Chowdhury, and Pamela Wisniewski
Sliding into My DMs: Detecting Uncomfortable or Unsafe Sexual Risk Experiences within Instagram Direct Messages Grounded in the Perspective of Youth
26th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2023)
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Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou
Lambretta: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
44th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2023)
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Yiting Qu, Xinlei He, Shannon Pierson, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang, Savvas Zannettou
On the Evolution of (Hateful) Memes by Means of Multimodal Contrastive Learning
44th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2023)
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Mohit Singhal, Chen Ling, Pujan Paudel, Poojitha Thota, Nihal Kumarswamy, Gianluca Stringhini, and Shirin Nilizadeh
SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice
8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023)
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Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jeremy Blackburn
Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci 2023)
best paper award
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Utkucan Balci, Chen Ling, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Megan Squire, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women’s Ideological Spaces
15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci 2023)
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Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto, Anja Feldmann, Savvas Zannettou
On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram
15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci 2023)
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Jinkyung Park, Joshua Gracie, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Gianluca Stringhini, Vivek Singh, Pamela Wisniewski
Towards Automated Detection of Risky Images Shared by Youth on Social Media
2023 WWW Workshop on Cyber Social Threat (CySoc 2023)
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Felipe Gonzalez-Pizarro, Savvas Zannettou
Understanding and Detecting Hateful Content using Contrastive Learning
17th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023)
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Alexandros Efstratiou, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023)
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Chen Ling, Krishna P Gummadi, Savvas Zannettou
“Learn the Facts About COVID-19”: Analyzing the Use of Warning Labels on TikTok Videos 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023)
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2022
Wai Man Si, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
Why So Toxic? Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots
29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2022), honorable mention
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Alexandros Efstratiou and Emiliano De Cristofaro
Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes
25th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022)
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Shiza Ali, Afsaneh Razi, Kim Seunghyun, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Joshua Gracie, Munmun De Choudhury, Pamela Wisniewski, and Gianluca Stringhini
Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth: Analyzing Media Shared within Safe Versus Unsafe Private Conversations
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
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Haris Bin Zia, A. Raman, I. Castro, I. Anaobi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, N. Sastry, Gareth Tyson
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2022)
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Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, and Gianluca Stringhini
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
43th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2022)
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Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini
Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos
14th ACM Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci 2022)
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Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
On Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online
16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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Amin Mekacher, Antonis Papasavva
“I Can’t Keep It Up.” A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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Antonis Papasavva, Max Aliapoulios, Cameron Ballard, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, and Jeremy Blackburn
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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media coverage NewScientist, The Queen’s Journal
Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
On Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, and Michael Sirivianos
“It is just a flu”: Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube’s Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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Catherine Jennifer, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook’s Challenge
International ICWSM Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2022)
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Savvas Zannettou, Oana Goga, Fabrício Benevenuto, Robert West
Can online attention signals help fact-checkers to fact-check?
ICWSM Workshops 2022 International ICWSM Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2022)
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Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
A Longitudinal Study of the Gettr Social Network
International ICWSM Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2022)
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Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini
There are N Impostors Among Us: Understanding the Effect of State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit Discussions
International ICWSM Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2022)
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2021
Anaobi Ishaku, Igancio Castro, Aravindh Raman, Haris Bin Zia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNext 2021)
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Robert West
Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
24th ACM Conference On Computer Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
honorable mention
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media coverage Washington Post, NBC News, TIME, The Conversation, El Pais, The Brink
Periwinkle Doerfler, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn, and Damon McCoy
“I’m a Professor, which isn’t usually a dangerous job”: Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
24th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
impact recognition award
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Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos
“How Over Is It? Understanding The Incel Community On YouTube”
24th ACM Conference On Computer Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
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Chen Ling, Ihab AbuHilal, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, and Gianluca Stringhini
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
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media coverage Input Magazine
Seunghyun Kim, Afsaneh Razi, Gianluca Stringhini, Pamela Wisniewski, and Munmum De Chowdhury
A Human-Centered Systematic Literature Review of Cyberbullying Detection Algorithms
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
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Afsaneh Razi, Seunghyun Kim, Ashwaq Soubai, Gianluca Stringhini, Thamar Solorio, Munmum De Chowdhury, and Pamela Wisniewski
A Human-Centered Systematic Literature Review of the Computational Approaches for Online Sexual Risk Detection
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
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Savvas Zannettou
“I Won the Election!”: An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021)
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media coverage The Atlantic
Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stinghini, and Savvas Zannettou
A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021)
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media coverage USA Today, The Conversation, Business Insider-1, Business Insider-2
Jeremiah Onaolapo, Nektarios Leontiadis, Despoina Magka, Gianluca Stringhini
SocialHEISTing: Understanding Stolen Facebook Accounts
30th USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix Security 2021)
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Chen Ling, Ihab AbuHilal, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
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media coverage INPUT, BU Today
Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
“Is it a Qoincidence?”: An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat
30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021)
pdf video
media coverage Wired, Echosec, The Daily Beast, openDemocracy, CARR
Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Leonard Schild, Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Yang Zhang, Savvas Zannettou
“Go eat a bat, Chang!”: An Early Look on the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19
30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021)
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media coverage Washington Post-1, Washington Post-2
Chen Ling, Utkucan Balcı, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini
A First Look at Zoombombing
42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2021)
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media coverage Inside Higher Ed, arsTECHNICA, Wired, NewScientist, The Register
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro Gianluca Stringhini, Summer Long, Stephanie Greenberg, Savvas Zannettou
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021)
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media coverage Newsweek, MIT Tech, Daily Mail, The Conversation, NDR
Seunghyun Kim, Afsaneh Razi, Gianluca Stringhini, Pamela Wisniewski, Munmun De Chowdhury
You Don’t Know How I Feel: Insider-Outsider Perspective Gaps in Cyberbullying Risk Detection
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021)
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Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, David Magerman, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021)
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Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael Bailey, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein, Sunny Consolvo, Nicola Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, Gianluca Stringhini
SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse
42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2021)
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2020
Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Manoel Júnior, Fabrício Benevenuto, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, Savvas Zannettou
Demystifying the Messaging Platforms’ Ecosystem Through the Lens of Twitter
20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2020)
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Erik Rye, Jeremy Blackburn, Robert Beverly
Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter
20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2020)
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media coverage The Conversation
Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Brian Keegan, Megan Squire, Jeremy Blackburn
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf video
Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Megan Squire, Jeremy Blackburn
The Pushshift Telegram Dataset
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf video
media coverage The Conversation
Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf video
Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn
Characterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf video
Savvas Zannettou, Joel Finkelstein, Barry Bradlyn, and Jeremy Blackburn
A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
best paper runner-up
pdf video
Media coverage: Washington Post
Alexandros Mittos, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, and Emiliano De Cristofaro
“And We Will Fight For Our Race! A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf video
Media coverage: The Times, StatNews
Kostantinos Papadamou, Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, and Michael Sirivianos
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
best paper runner-up
pdf video
Media coverage: Washington Post, New York Times
2019
Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Jordi Luque Serrano, and Gianluca Stringhini
“You Know What to Do”: Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2019)
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Media coverage: TechRepublic
Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson
Challenges in the Decentralized Web: The Mastodon Case
19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2019)
pdf video
media coverage The Conversation
Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, and Nicolas Kourtellis
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Vol. 13, No. 3, 2019
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Media coverage: The Register, BBC, NewsBusters, SkyNews
Antigoni Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali, and Ilias Leontiadis
A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection
10th International ACM Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci 2019)
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Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn
Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
10th International ACM Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci 2019)
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Media coverage: TechXplore
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn
Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter & Their Influence on the Web
4th WebConf Workshop on Computational Methods in CyberSafety, Online Harassment, and Misinformation (CyberSafety 2019)
best paper award
pdf
Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn, and Nicolas Kourtellis
The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), Vol. 11, No. 3, 2019
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2018
Juan Echeverria, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, Shi Zhou
LOBO – Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2018)
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Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018)
distinguished paper award
pdf code
media coverage BBC Trending, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, CBS News, The Independent, VICE, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, Quartz, MotherJones, InfoWars, Thinkprogress, Iflscience, Hornet, Bellingcat, El Pais (in Spanish)
Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini
Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media
12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018)
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Antigoni Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, Michael Sirivianos, and Nicolas Kourtellis
Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior
12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018)
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Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Haewoon Kwak, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?
3rd WWW Workshop on Computational Methods for CyberSafety (CyberSafety 2018)
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media coverage NBC News, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Vox, Wired, The Conversation, openDemocracy, CARR
2017
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, N. Kourtellis, I. Leontiadis, M. Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources
17th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2017)
pdf blog
Media coverage: Nature, The Atlantic, La Repubblica (in Italian), Ansa (in Italian), Sky News, Hacker News, BoingBoing, Phys.org, Naked Security
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Dali Kaafar, M. Zubair Shafiq
Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, Vol. 20, No. 4 (ACM TOPS 2017)
Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Mean Birds: Detecting Aggression and Bullying on Twitter
9th International ACM Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci 2017), also appeared as a poster at WWW 2017
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Gabriel Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web
11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017)
best paper runner-up
pdf blog
Media coverage: Nature, Motherboard, The Independent, The Conversation, MIT Technology Review, Vice, La Stampa (in Italian), La Repubblica (in Italian), BoingBoing, Pacific Standard
Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Hate is not binary: Studying abusive behavior of #GamerGate on Twitter
28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (ACM HyperText 2017)
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Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Dali Kaafar, M. Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
12th IEEE/APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2017)
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Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying
2nd WWW Workshop on Computational Methods for CyberSafety (CyberSafety 2017)
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