ISI Directory

Luca Luceri, Ph.D.

Publications

2025

IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri, Emilio Ferrara
AAAI 2025,  2025
Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 US Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset
Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The Web Conference 2025,  2025
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 US Election
Federico Cinus, Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The Web Conference 2025,  2025
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on Tiktok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The Web Conference 2025,  2025
The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang, Emilio Ferrara
ICWSM'25 – 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,  2025
Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Petter Törnberg, Silvia Giordano
ICWSM'25 – 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,  2025
Network-informed Prompt Engineering against Organized Astroturf Campaigns under Extreme Class Imbalance
Nikos Kanakaris, Heng Ping, Xiongye Xiao, Nesreen K Ahmed, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Paul Bogdan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11849,  2025
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Valeria Pantè, David Axelrod, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
In the Proceedings of The Web Conference 2025,  2025
Prevalence, Sharing Patterns, and Spreaders of Multimodal AI-Generated Content on X during the 2024 US Presidential Election
Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11248,  2025
A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch
Gianluca Nogara, Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Matthew R DeVerna, Nick Liu, Luca Luceri, Filippo Menczer, Francesco Pierri, Silvia Giordano
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02317,  2025

2024

Online search is more likely to lead youth to validate true news than to refute false ones
Azza Bouleimen, Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso, Luca Botturi, Martin Hermida, Loredana Addimando, Chiara Beretta, Marzia Galloni, Silvia Giordano
2024
Biases in Toxicity Detection Models
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Petter Törnberg, Silvia Giordano
Perspective,  2024
Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities
Kristina Lerman, Minh Duc Chu, Charles Bickham, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15721,  2024
Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations
Ozgur Can Seckin, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala, Lake Yin, Luca Luceri, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10609,  2024
Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X Approaching the 2024 US Presidential Election
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.01852,  2024
Unfiltered Conversations: A Dataset of 2024 US Presidential Election Discourse on Truth Social
Kashish Shah, Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.01330,  2024
A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 US Presidential Election on Twitter/X
Ashwin Balasubramanian, Vito Zou, Hitesh Narayana, Christina You, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00376,  2024
The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening
Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Gianluca Nogara, Matthew R DeVerna, Nick Liu, Luca Luceri, Filippo Menczer, Francesco Pierri, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advances in Social …,  2024
Tracking fringe and coordinated activity on Twitter leading up to the US Capitol attack
Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso, Stefano Cresci, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024
An Exploration of Decentralized Moderation on Mastodon
Carlo Alberto Bono, Lucio La Cava, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 53-58,  2024
Hidden in Plain Sight: Exploring the Intersections of Mental Health, Eating Disorders, and Content Moderation on TikTok
Charles Bickham, Kia Kazemi-Nia, Luca Luceri, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
ICWSM’24 Companion Proceedings,  2024
Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference,  2024
Moral Values Underpinning COVID-19 Online Communication Patterns
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08789,  2024
Contextualizing Internet Memes Across Social Media Platforms
Saurav Joshi, Filip Ilievski, Luca Luceri
In the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference 2024 Best Paper Award …,  2024
Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Influence Campaigns on Social Media
Luca Luceri, Eric Boniardi, Emilio Ferrara
In the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference 2024 Best Paper Award,  2024
Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Julie Jiang, Emilio Ferrara
The Web Conference 2024,  2024
Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter
Luca Luceri, Valeria Pantè, Keith Burghardt, Emilio Ferrara
The Web Conference 2024,  2024
Social Approval and Network Homophily as Motivators of Online Toxicity
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Joseph B Walther, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07779,  2024

2023

Exposing influence campaigns in the age of LLMs: a behavioral-based AI approach to detecting state-sponsored trolls
Fatima Ezzeddine, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano, Gianluca Nogara, Ihab Sbeity, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
EPJ Data Science 12 (1), 46,  2023
How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Emily Chen, Emilio Ferrara
EPJ Data Science 12 (1), 43,  2023
What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Luca Luceri, Goran Murić, Francesco Pierri, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Emilio Ferrara
ICWSM’23 Companion Proceedings,  2023
Online Networks of Support in Distressed Environments: Solidarity and Mobilization during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Jinyi Ye, Nikhil Jindal, Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri
ICWSM’23 Companion Proceedings,  2023
Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media
Tommaso Fornaciari, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Dirk Hovy
ICWSM’23 Companion Proceedings,  2023
Retrieving false claims on Twitter during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Valerio La Gatta, Chiyu Wei, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri, Emilio Ferrara
Companion of The Web Conference 2023,  2023
Using Science To Guide Social Media Regulation
Silvia Giordano, Filippo Menczer, Natascha Just, Florian Saurwein, John Bryden, Luca Luceri
Tech Policy Press,  2023
Explainable Classification of Internet Memes
Abhinav Kumar Thakur, Filip Ilievski, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Zhivar Sourati, Luca Luceri, Riccardo Tommasini, Alain Mermoud
NeSy 2023, 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning,  2023
Multimodal and Explainable Internet Meme Classification
Abhinav Kumar Thakur, Filip Ilievski, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Alain Mermoud, Zhivar Sourati, Luca Luceri, Riccardo Tommasini
AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good,  2023
Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Nikhil Jindal, Emilio Ferrara
15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023,  2023
Identifying and Characterizing Behavioral Classes of Radicalization within the QAnon Conspiracy on Twitter
Emily L Wang, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri, Emilio Ferrara
ICWSM 2023,  2023
Detecting Social Media Manipulation in Low-Resource Languages
Samar Haider, Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Nanyun Peng, Emilio Ferrara
Companion of The Web Conference 2023,  2023

2022

The disinformation dozen: An exploratory analysis of covid-19 disinformation proliferation on twitter
Gianluca Nogara, Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Felipe Cardoso, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022, 348-358,  2022
Artificial intelligence and cardiovascular risk prediction: all that glitters is not gold
Mauro Chiarito, Luca Luceri, Angelo Oliva, Giulio Stefanini, Gianluigi Condorelli
European Cardiology Review 17,  2022

2021

Social media against society
Luca Luceri, Stefano Cresci, Silvia Giordano
The Internet and the 2020 Campaign 1,  2021
A framework for emotion-driven product design through virtual reality
Davide Andreoletti, Marco Paoliello, Luca Luceri, Tiziano Leidi, Achille Peternier, Silvia Giordano
Special Sessions in the Advances in Information Systems and Technologies …,  2021
Smart quality control powered by machine learning algorithms
Niko Bonomi, Felipe Cardoso, Matteo Confalonieri, Fabio Daniele, Andrea Ferrario, Michele Foletti, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri, Paolo Pedrazzoli
2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and …,  2021
Down the bot hole: Actionable insights from a one-year analysis of bot activity on Twitter
Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso, Silvia Giordano
First Monday,  2021
A System for Real-Time Emotion Recognition in Smart Cities
Davide Andreoletti, Felipe Cardoso, Andrea Arzillo, Luca Luceri, Achille Peternier, Silvia Giordano
2021
The Virtual Emotion Loop: Towards Emotion-Driven Product Design via Virtual Reality
Davide Andreoletti, Luca Luceri, Achille Peternier, Tiziano Leidi, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 2021 Federated Conference on Computer Science and …,  2021

2020

Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19
Emilio Ferrara, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri
Journal of Computational Social Science 3, 271-277,  2020
Detecting Troll Behavior via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study of Russian Trolls in the 2016 US Election
Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM),  2020
Digital Weapons in Social Media Manipulation Campaigns
Felipe Cardoso, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Workshop Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and …,  2020
Measurement and control of geo-location privacy on Twitter
Luca Luceri, Davide Andreoletti, Massimo Tornatore, Torsten Braun, Silvia Giordano
Online Social Networks and Media 17, 100078,  2020
Uprise-iot: User-centric privacy & security in the iot
Silvia Giordano, Victor Morel, Melek Önen, Mirco Musolesi, Davide Andreoletti, Felipe Cardoso, Alan Ferrari, Luca Luceri, Claude Castelluccia, Daniel Le Métayer, Cédric Van Rompay, Benjamin Baron
Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things: Challenges and Solutions, 44-60,  2020

2019

Evolution of bot and human behavior during elections
Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Silvia Giordano, Emilio Ferrara
First Monday,  2019
Analyzing and inferring human real-life behavior through online social networks with social influence deep learning
Luca Luceri, Torsten Braun, Silvia Giordano
Applied Network Science,  2019
Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior
Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara
Companion of the The Web Conference 2019, 1007-1012,  2019
Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms
Ashok Deb, Luca Luceri, Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara
Companion of the The Web Conference 2019,  2019
A Cooperative Machine Learning Approach for Pedestrian Navigation in Indoor IoT
Marzieh Jalal Abadi, Luca Luceri, Mahbub Hassan, Chun Tung Chou, Monica Nicoli
Sensors 19 (21), 4609,  2019

2018

VIVO: a Secure, Privacy-Preserving and Real-Time Crowd-Sensing Framework for the Internet of Things
Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso, Michela Papandrea, Silvia Giordano, Julia Buwaya, Stephane Kundig, Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, Jose Rolim, Zhongliang Zhao, Jose Luis Carrera, Torsten Braun, Aristide Charles Yedia Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis
Pervasive and Mobile Computing,  2018
Social Influence (Deep) Learning for Human Behavior Prediction
Luca Luceri, Torsten Braun, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Complex Networks - CompleNet' 2018,  2018

2017

On the Social Influence in Human Behavior: Physical, Homophily, and Social Communities
Luca Luceri, Alberto Vancheri, Torsten Braun, Silvia. Giordano
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Complex Networks and …,  2017

2016

Infer mobility patterns and social dynamics for modelling human behaviour
Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops …,  2016

2014

A collaborative approach to heading estimation for smartphone-based PDR indoor localisation
Marzieh Jalal Abadi, Luca Luceri, Mahbub Hassan, Chun Tung Chou, Monica Nicoli
2014 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation …,  2014

2013

Distributed dead reckoning for cooperative indoor localization
LUCA LUCERI
Politecnico di Milano,  2013