Publications
This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.
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
Social approval and network homophily as motivators of online toxicity
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Joseph B Walther, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07779, 2023
Parasocial Diffusion: K-pop Fandoms Help Drive COVID-19 Public Health Messaging on Social Media
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Becky Pham, Emilio Ferrara
Online Social Networks and Media 37, 100267, 2023
Social Bot Detection in the Age of ChatGPT: Challenges and Opportunities
Emilio Ferrara
First Monday 28 (6), 2023
Controlled Text Generation with Hidden Representation Transformations
Vaibhav Kumar, Hana Koorehdavoudi, Masud Moshtaghi, Amita Misra, Ankit Chadha, Emilio Ferrara
2023 ACL Findings, 2023
Identifying Informational Sources in News Articles
Alexander Spangher, Nanyun Peng, Jonathan May, Emilio Ferrara
2023 EMNLP, 2023
Exploring the behavior of users with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on Twitter: comparative analysis of tweet content and user interactions
Liuliu Chen, Jiwon Jeong, Bridgette Simpkins, Emilio Ferrara
Journal of Medical Internet Research 25, e43439, 2023
Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models
Emilio Ferrara
First Monday 28 (11), 2023
Unveiling the Dynamics of Censorship, COVID-19 Regulations, and Protest: An Empirical Study of Chinese Subreddit r/china_irl
Siyi Zhou, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops, 2023
Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media
Tommaso Fornaciari, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Dirk Hovy
Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops, 2023
The Interconnected Nature of Online Harm and Moderation: Investigating the Cross-Platform Spread of Harmful Content between YouTube and Twitter
Valerio La Gatta, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri, Emilio Ferrara
2023 ACM Hypertext, 2023
Retrieving False Claims on Twitter During the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Valerio La Gatta, Chiyu Wei, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri, Emilio Ferrara
WWW '23: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 1317-1323, 2023
Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Nikhil Jindal, Emilio Ferrara
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, 65-74, 2023
Geolocated Social Media Posts are Happier: Understanding the Characteristics of Check-in Posts on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Jesse Thomason, Francesco Barbieri, Emilio Ferrara
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, 136-146, 2023
Detecting Social Media Manipulation in Low-resource Languages
Samar Haider, Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Nanyun Peng, Emilio Ferrara
WWW '23: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 1358-1364, 2023
Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible–a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead
Emilio Ferrara
2024-05-19]. https://www. llrx. com/2023/07/eliminating-bias-in-ai-maybe …, 2023
Hybrid Forecasting of Geopolitical Events
Daniel M Benjamin, Fred Morstatter, Ali E Abbas, Andres Abeliuk, Pavel Atanasov, Stephen Bennett, Andreas Beger, Saurabh Birari, David V Budescu, Michele Catasta, Emilio Ferrara, Lucas Haravitch, Mark Himmelstein, KSM Tozammel Hossain, Yuzhong Huang, Woojeong Jin, Regina Joseph, Jure Leskovec, Akira Matsui, Mehrnoosh Mirtaheri, Xiang Ren, Gleb Satyukov, Rajiv Sethi, Amandeep Singh, Rok Sosic, Mark Steyvers, Pedro A Szekely, Michael D Ward, Aram Galstyan
AI Magazine, 2023
Liberals engage with more diverse policy topics and toxic content than conservatives on social media
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, James Druckman, Emilio Ferrara, Robb Willer
OSF, 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 - 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023