Deplatforming refers to the permanent ban of controversial public figures with large
followings on social media sites. In recent years, platforms like Facebook, Twitter and …

We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity
by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic machine learning approach. Our …

Disinformation campaigns on social media, involving coordinated activities from malicious
accounts towards manipulating public opinion, have become increasingly prevalent …

Social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have become pivotal arenas for influence
campaigns, often orchestrated by state-sponsored information operations (IOs). This paper …

Since the 2016 US Presidential election, social media abuse has been eliciting massive
concern in the academic community and beyond. Preventing and limiting the malicious …

The wide spread of unfounded election fraud claims surrounding the US 2020 election had
resulted in undermining of trust in the election, culminating in violence inside the US capitol …

Recent research brought awareness of the issue of bots on social media and the significant
risks of mass manipulation of public opinion in the context of political discussion. In this …

It has become apparent that human accounts are not the sole actors in the social media
scenario. The expanding role of social media in the consumption and diffusion of information …

With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity, Creating
Chaos Online unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public …

During the last decades, the volume of multimedia content posted in social networks has
grown exponentially and such information is immediately propagated and consumed by a …