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Video-chat about social media manipulation

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  • October 23, 2020
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I recorded a podcast interview for @USCAnnenberg on my research career so far, starting from games and w/ highlights about ten years of research on social media manipulation, and the…

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Twitter bots for good, and information contagion!

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  • September 27, 2017
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Our latest work, titled "Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots" was published in Plos One on September 22, 2017! In this study,…

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Diffusion of ISIS propaganda on Twitter

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  • July 28, 2017
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My latest work titled "Contagion dynamics of extremist propaganda in social networks" has been published on Information Sciences. The study aims at modeling and understanding the diffusion of extremist propaganda,…

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#MacronLeaks, bots, and the 2017 French election

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  • July 6, 2017
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My latest work titled "Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election" investigates the #MacronLeaks disinformation campaign that occurred in the run up to…

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Millions of social bots invaded Twitter!

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  • March 14, 2017
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Our work titled Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization has been accepted for publication at the prestigious International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) to be…

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Complex System Society 2016 Junior Scientific Award!

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  • January 16, 2017
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I was selected as recipient of the 2016 Junior Scientific Award by the Complex System Society! The award reads: Emilio Ferrara is one of the most active and successful young researchers in the…

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Twitter, Social Bots, and the US Presidential Elections!

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  • November 7, 2016
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Our paper titled Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion was published on the November 2016 issue of First Monday and selected as Editor's featured article! We…

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Looking for exceptional postdoc candidates in Computational Social Sciences

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  • September 9, 2016
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Apply at: https://jobs.usc.edu/postings/71574 - and contact me!

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The Rise of Social Bots!

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  • June 28, 2016
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Emilio Ferrara discusses "The Rise of Social Bots" on the July 2016 Communications of the ACM. Our review paper on the rise of social bots has appeared on the cover…

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The structure of Mafia syndacates

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  • May 4, 2016
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S Agreste, S Catanese, P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara. Network structure and resilience of Mafia syndicates. Information Sciences, 2016 Useful links: Journal page | Arxiv In this paper in collaboration…

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