Video-chat about social media manipulation
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…
Twitter bots for good, and information contagion!
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,…
Diffusion of ISIS propaganda on Twitter
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,…
#MacronLeaks, bots, and the 2017 French election
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…
Millions of social bots invaded Twitter!
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…
Complex System Society 2016 Junior Scientific Award!
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…
Twitter, Social Bots, and the US Presidential Elections!
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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The Rise of Social Bots!
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…
The structure of Mafia syndacates
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…