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07/22/2023
Identifying Misinformation on YouTube through Transcript Contextual Analysis with Transformer Models
Misinformation on YouTube is a significant concern, necessitating robust...
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07/13/2023
A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media
Social media's role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus ...
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09/23/2022
Privacy-Preserving Online Content Moderation: A Federated Learning Use Case
Users are daily exposed to a large volume of harmful content on various ...
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04/07/2021
A First Look into the Structural Properties and Resilience of Blockchain Overlays
Blockchain (BC) systems are highly distributed peer-to-peer networks tha...
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10/22/2020
"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
YouTube has revolutionized the way people discover and consume videos, b...
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03/16/2020
Hihooi: A Database Replication Middleware for Scaling Transactional Databases Consistently
With the advent of the Internet and Internet-connected devices, modern b...
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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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01/21/2019
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube
A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
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11/20/2018
Killing the Password and Preserving Privacy with Device-Centric and Attribute-based Authentication
Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First...
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11/07/2018
Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
Over the past few years, extensive anecdotal evidence emerged that sugge...
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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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04/10/2018
The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including ...
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02/14/2018
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?
Over the past few years new "fringe" communities have been created and g...
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01/31/2018