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

We constantly ask our apps where to visit, eat or drink. AI tells us, and most of the time, we follow it. The loop continues. But do AIs favor certain places? How would we even know if we don’t own the platforms? We modeled this complex phenomenon, and results are fascinating! Spoiler: rich get…

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

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

The three horsemen of social media: brain rot, anxiety and foreign interference voxeurop.eu/en/social-me...

"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.

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