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emilioferrara.bsky.social

Prof of Computer Science at USC AI, social media, society, networks, data, and HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name

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Big news from #ICWSM2025! "The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence” by @luceriluc.bsky.social, @jinyiye.bsky.social, Julie Jiang & @emilioferrara.bsky.social was named a Top 5 Paper & won Best Paper Honorable Mention! 👏 Congrats to all!

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So satisfying to have some evidence that Elon Musk is wildly promoting himself on X. Researchers made 120 sock puppet accounts to see whose content is getting pushed on users. #FAccT2025 @jinyiye.bsky.social @luceriluc.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3715...

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A Multimodal TikTok Dataset of #Ecuador's 2024 Political Crisis and Organized Crime Discourse by Gabriela Pinto, @emilioferrara.bsky.social USC workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php... @icwsm.bsky.social #dataforvulnerable25

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🤖Thrilled to share our latest work☄️ Have you ever wondered what LLMs know but they are not saying? We built an auditing framework to study information suppression in LLMs, and demonstrated it to quantify and characterize censorship in DeepSeek. Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2506.12349

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I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!

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🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫? new "Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media" with I Augenstein, M Bakker, T. Chakraborty, D. Corney, E Ferrara, I Gurevych, S Hale, E Hovy, H Ji, I Larraz, F Menczer, P Nakov, D Sahnan, G Warren, G Zagni

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One of my favorite recent projects! Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.10867

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What does coordinated inauthentic behavior look like on TikTok? We introduce a new framework for detecting coordination in video-first platforms, uncovering influence campaigns using synthetic voices, split-screen tactics, and cross-account duplication. 📄https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10867

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"Limited effectiveness of LLM-based data augmentation for COVID-19 misinformation stance detection" by @euncheolchoi.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social et al, presented by the awesome Chur at The Web Conference 2025 arxiv.org/abs/2503.02328

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🚀 First study on multimodal AI-generated content (AIGC) on social media! TLDR: AI-generated images are 10× more prevalent than AI-generated text! Just 3% of text spreaders and 10% of image spreaders drive 80% of AIGC diffusion, with premium & bot accounts playing a key role🤖📢

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How does DeepSeek censorship work? Here is a practical example: I asked it to discuss about my work (having studied censorship online by various countries). DeepSeek at first starts to compose an accurate answer, even mentioning China’s online censorship efforts.

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Good day to boost this paper on the contrasting effects of lax content moderation (like on X and what is coming at Meta) and how they drive toxic content; by a team including @luceriluc.bsky.social and @emilioferrara.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.157...

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i was annoyed at having many chrome tabs with PDF papers having uninformative titles, so i created a small chrome extension to fix it. i'm using it for a while now, works well. today i put it on github. enjoy. github.com/yoavg/pdf-ta...

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When I was a grad student I looked up to giants of my discipline and never would have thought a day like this would ever come for me, happy to celebrate a personal milestone on this holiday! Academia and research are great. Thanks all!

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"IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations" goes to AAAI'25! This is the result of an incredible collaboration with @luceriluc.bsky.social @frafabbri.bsky.social and @emilioferrara.bsky.social Read the entire thread for a summary and the link to the preprint.

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Fascinating new look at source selection in news from Spangher, @emilioferrara.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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An incredibly important work by Jinyi, Luca and Julie! #icwsm2025 Thread below:

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New evidence of cross-platform foreign interference on social media during the 2024 U.S. Election that drove the spread of highly-partisan, low-credibility, and conspiratorial content, from Cinus, Minici, @luceriluc.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22716

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That's an amazing recognition, proud of Luca!

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