Radical mobilization in times of crisis: Use and effects of appeals and populist communication features in Telegram channels

P Jost, L Dogruel - Social Media+ Society, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Social crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic provide a fertile ground for radical
actors and social movements to strengthen their radical mobilization—mainly using social …

Messaging apps: A rising tool for informational autocrats

IK Trauthig, ZC Martin… - Political Research …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Social media have caused adaptations to existing conceptualizations of democratization,
democratic backsliding, and authoritarian hardening. One attempt to capture how social …

[PDF][PDF] Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation and its Mitigation.

MS Mirza, L Begum, L Niu, S Pardo, A Abouzied… - NDSS, 2023‏ - ndss-symposium.org
Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation & its Mitigation Page 1 Tactics, Threats &
Targets: Modeling Disinformation & its Mitigation Shujaat Mirza, Liang Niu Paolo Papotti …

Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 US Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset

L Blas, L Luceri, E Ferrara - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.23638, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
With its lenient moderation policies and long-standing associations with potentially unlawful
activities, Telegram has become an incubator for problematic content, frequently featuring …

Politics and disinformation: Analyzing the use of Telegram's information disorder network in Brazil for political mobilization

A Cavalini, F Malini, F Gouveia, G Comarela - First Monday, 2023‏ - firstmonday.org
Over the past few years, with the increasing popularization of network communication in
place of traditional mass communication, supported by social platforms and messengers …

The mela bitchute dataset

MZ Trujillo, M Gruppi, C Buntain… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - ojs.aaai.org
In this paper we present a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over
2.5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a …

Distribution and reception of conspiracy theories and mobilization calls on Telegram. Combining evidence from a content analysis and survey during the pandemic

L Dogruel, S Kruschinski, P Jost… - M&K Medien & …, 2023‏ - nomos-elibrary.de
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to an “infodemic” characterized by the
widespread dissemination of conspiracy theories and calls for resistance against measures …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking the trend: Anomaly detection models for early warning of socio-political unrest

L Macis, M Tagliapietra, R Meo, P Pisano - Technological Forecasting and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents an innovative Early Warning System for predicting conflicts and unrest
based on Anomaly Detection, identifying sudden and unexpected changes in behavioral …

Characterizing Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse on Telegram Groups and Channels

M Franco, O Gaggi, CE Palazzi - … of the 4th International Workshop on …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
The non-consensual spread of intimate images and videos is a problematic phenomenon
exacerbated by the rise of unmoderated instant messaging platforms like Telegram, where …

Telegram monitor: monitoring brazilian political groups and channels on telegram

M Júnior, P Melo, D Kansaon, V Mafra, K Sá… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
In this work, we present the “Telegram Monitor”, a web-based system that monitors the
political debate in this environment and enables the analysis of the most shared content in …