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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · 15d

🎖️Best student paper honorable mention for our @zhiyi-chen.bsky.social & @jinyiye.bsky.social 🎖️

Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X | Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X | Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · Dec 4

Coverage of our latest work!

Online ‘likes’ for toxic social media posts prompt more − and more hateful − messages

https://theconversation.com/online-likes-for-toxic-social-media-posts-prompt-more-and-more-hateful-messages-218220

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Ozgur Can Seckin @ozgurcanseckin.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨Our new paper is on arXiv! We’re excited to share 26 state-backed information operation (IO) datasets, each paired with a robust control set of 13M+ posts in total from non-IO accounts. You can reach the dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1418...

Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations

Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations Compliance with Platform Terms To comply with the platform terms, we ask that you download one data file per researcher, per day. By requesting ...

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Jinyi Ye @jinyiye.bsky.social · Dec 12

Are your friends more susceptible to influence than you? Our new work in #ICWSM2025 uncovers The Susceptibility Paradox in online social influence.
w/ @luceriluc.bsky.social , Julie Jiang, @emilioferrara.bsky.social
Explore our findings: arxiv.org/abs/2406.11553

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Marco Minici @marcominici.bsky.social · Dec 23

"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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Zhiyi Chen @zhiyi-chen.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚀 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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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Apr 25

Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting

https://www.ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4c39-a940-830ce156c235

Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting

FT analysis finds network of X accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · Jun 26

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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Gianluca Nogara @gianluca99.bsky.social · Jun 25

It was a pleasure to present our research at @icwsm.bsky.social in Copenhagen with many friends and colleagues!
Don't miss our work with @frapierri.bsky.social, Stefano Cresci, @luceriluc.bsky.social, @pettertornberg.com and @silviagiordano.bsky.social here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Jun 25

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...

Box and whisker plot showing the top 20 recommended accounts across "neutral" sock puppet accounts. Elon Musk is most recommended.

Box and whisker plot showing the top 20 recommended accounts across "left-leaning" sock puppet accounts. Elon Musk is most recommended.

Box and whisker plot showing the top 20 recommended accounts across "right-leaning" sock puppet accounts. Elon Musk is most recommended by far.

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 19

w/ @emilioferrara.bsky.social @isi.edu

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 19

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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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 15

Chatted with @laist.com LAist’s AirTalk about our ongoing work on AI-generated content, how it spreads on social media, and how people respond to it (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11248)

Give it a listen here: laist.com/shows/airtal...

What’s gonna happen with the Tustin hangar?

Today on AirTalk, LAist reporter Yusra Farzan gives us an update on the Tustin Hangar; how AI influences our social media feeds; the current state of conspiracy theories; Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets g...

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 2

@isi.edu squad at The Web Conference 2025

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 2

@federicocinus.bsky.social presenting our paper on the detection of coordinated inauthentic behavior across platforms at The Web Conference

Visit our poster today at 2:45pm:
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22716