Spambots are automated accounts (i.e., accounts driven by a bot) that repeatedly advertise unsolicited and often harmful content (e.g., malware, URLs to phishing Web sites,...

Fake followers are fake accounts massively created to follow a target account and that can be bought from online markets. In other words, their goal is that of increasing the...

The "Digital DNA fingerprinting" is a spambot detection technique based on the "Digital DNA" online behavioral modeling technique. Given a set of Twitter user timelines, it is...

This code contains two Mathematica notebooks to find the polarizing opinion vectors given the social graph and the nodes’ susceptibility. The notebooks have to be saved in the...

Report on the Humane-AI microproject "Pluralistic Recommendation in News". It contains details on how the two relevant datasets were built, a link to the two, and details...

Algorithms that tackle the problem of minimizing average/maximum hitting time (BMAH/BMMH) between different social network groups, given fixed shortcut edges. The...

This experiment is part the project "Streams of conspiratorial folklore" that investigates online media as a stream of performances, rather than as archives of documents. Our...

The proliferation of fake news is a current issue that influences a number of important areas of society, such as politics, economy and health. In the Natural Language...

The Twitter Monitor is an interactive Web application designed to access the Twitter stream by exploiting the public Twitter Streaming APIs. The application can manage...

Stance classification can be a powerful tool for understanding whether and which users believe in online rumours. The task aims to automatically predict the stance of replies...

This experiment is part the project "Streams of conspiratorial folklore" that investigates online media as a stream of performances, rather than as archives of documents. Our...

This experiment is part the project "Streams of conspiratorial folklore" that investigates online media as a stream of performances, rather than as archives of documents. Our...

This method provides an iterative classification of users and keywords in Digital traces of conversations in micro-blogging platforms and in OSNs. The method identifies...

The planetary nervous system is a large-scale distributed research platform that provides real-time social sensing services as a public good. Existing Big Data systems...

This dataset comprises the Twitter timelines of journalists belonging to 17 different countries from 8 different continental regions, downloaded in May 2018. We used the Twitter...

This is the new improved version of the GATE Cloud platform originally launched in 2011 to provide end-to-end text processing solutions from the GATE family running on cloud...

This dataset contains the Twitter tweet_ids from the Timelines of 584 members of British Parliament (collected between 4th and 6th of March 2022). The users are identified from...

Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.

This report is based on an empirical case study on content moderation, whose objective is to interrogate whether content moderation can be reclaimed by users as a practice...

People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in Online Social Networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of...