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Luca Luceri
@luceriluc.bsky.social
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Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI 🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · 13d
🎖️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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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

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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
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
"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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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
"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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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
Rachel Kim and @ashtonanderson.bsky.social showing that issues are more polarized in the consumption of social media content than in its production, and with greater intensity compared to traditional media @The Web Conference 2025

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
Rachel Kim and @ashtonanderson.bsky.social showing that issues are more polarized in the consumption of social media content than in its production, and with greater intensity compared to traditional media @The Web Conference 2025

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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
@jlenti.bsky.social presenting his causal model on climate activism on Reddit at The Web Conference

Brilliant work in collaboration with @c0rrad0.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social @gdfm.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2410.10562
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
Fascinating work by Marian-Andrei Rizoiu’s group on modeling behavioral homophily through inverse reinforcement learning at The Web Conference

arxiv.org/abs/2502.02943
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · May 1
Amazing talk on affective polarization by our own (incredibly elegant) @ashwinrao.bsky.social at The Web Conference 2025
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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · Apr 29
ISI’s Luca Luceri partnered with Financial Times to uncover a coordinated online campaign influencing Canadian voters.

Read about it here: bit.ly/3Sb598U

@luceriluc.bsky.social @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · Apr 25
In collaboration with the Financial Times, our recent analysis uncovers a network of coordinated inauthentic actors engaged in amplifying misleading news content that promotes Poilievre while attacking Carney
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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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Marco Minici @marcominici.bsky.social · Mar 3
Can we effectively detect covert Information Operations (IOs) that attempt to manipulate socio-political debates on social media?

This is the focus of our work, "IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations", just presented at the #AAAI #AAAI2025
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Marco Minici @marcominici.bsky.social · Mar 3
This work would not have been possible without the other amazing coauthors @luceriluc.bsky.social @frafabbri.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social

Bonus Pic: myself beyond excited to stand next to my poster!
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · Feb 21
Brava Zhiyi!
📄 Read our pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11248
🫶🏻We made our resources available to the research community, including 2M+ labeled images - visit: github.com/angelayejiny...
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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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Scott Dance @byscottdance.com · Feb 4
Here is the list of words that the Trump administration is using to vet government-sponsored research for violations of his executive order on DEI (spoiler: one of them is "women"):
Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders
National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jan 21
The USC Information Sciences Institute 🇺🇸 will be our host organization. We're thrilled to have @fredfredfredfred.bsky.social, @kristinalerman.bsky.social, and @luceriluc.bsky.social as our wonderful hosts. Looking forward to an amazing event together!
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jan 20
🚨 Big news! We're thrilled to announce that #ICWSM 2026 will take place in sunny Los Angeles, California! 🌴☀️
More details coming soon! ✨
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · Jan 20
👇 accepted at The Web Conference 2025 🍾🍻
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · Dec 8
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
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election Figure 1 Figure 2 & Table 5 Figure 3
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Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · Jan 8
Shared some thoughts in this @time.com article on Meta’s decision to scale down moderation policies, noting it goes beyond discontinuing fact-checking

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Meta Ends Fact-Checking, Prompting Fears of Misinformation
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will move to a Community Notes system as the company prepares for Donald Trump's presidency.
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