🚨 New preprint 🚨
Can AI agents coordinate influence campaigns without human guidance? And how does coordination arise among AI agents? In our latest research, we simulate LLM-powered AI agents acting like users on an online platform, some benign, some running an influence operation

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

@isi.edu squad at The Web Conference 2025

@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

"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

"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

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

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

@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

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

Amazing talk on affective polarization by our own (incredibly elegant) @ashwinrao.bsky.social at The Web Conference 2025

Incredibly honored to be awarded the ISSNAF Young Investigator Award 2024 for Research in ArtificiaI Intelligence by the Embassy of Italy in the US

Heartfelt thanks to my mentors, students, collaborators, & family. This award would not have been possible w/o their unwavering support and guidance ❤️

Also, we introduce a supervised machine learning model that utilizes a vector representation of the fused similarity network. With a precision exceeding 0.95, this model effectively classifies IO drivers on a global scale and accurately predicts their temporal engagements.

Thrilled our work's been accepted at the Web Conference 2024!

Kudos to the team: V. Pante, K. Burghardt, and @emilioferrara.bsky.social

Check out "Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter": arxiv.org/pdf/2310.098...