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03/01/2023
What Is Synthetic Data? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. How...
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12/01/2021
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media...
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11/03/2021
"We won't even challenge their lefty academic definition of racist:" Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan
The dissemination and the reach of scientific knowledge have increased a...
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10/26/2021
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particul...
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04/22/2021
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research...
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09/10/2020
"Is it a Qoincidence?": A First Step Towards Understanding and Characterizing the QAnon Movement on Voat.co
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users to seek and sh...
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09/08/2020
Toward Robustness and Privacy in Federated Learning: Experimenting with Local and Central Differential Privacy
Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participants to collaboratively ...
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01/22/2020
Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content world...
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01/21/2020
From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere
Over the past few years, a number of "fringe" online communities have be...
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01/21/2020
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3M threads and 134.5M posts fr...
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01/28/2019
"And We Will Fight For Our Race!'" A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan
Rapid progress in genomics has enabled a thriving market for "direct-to-...
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05/31/2018
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate pub...
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05/21/2018
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Over the years, the Web has shrunk the world, allowing individuals to sh...
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05/10/2018
Inference Attacks Against Collaborative Learning
Collaborative machine learning and related techniques such as distribute...
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04/29/2018
