Papers by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Among Us: Language of Conspiracy Theorists on Mainstream Reddit (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Conspiracy theories are influential, alternative narratives that explain events through the actions of secretive, malevolent groups. |
| Approach: | They analyze a large-scale longitudinal dataset of over 500 million comments on reddit . they show that users exhibit distinctive linguistic patterns that enable machine learning models to distinguish them from the general population within individual communities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms global classifiers by 17 percentage points. |
Conspiracy Theories and Where to Find Them on TikTok (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on TikTok's potential to promote and amplify harmful content have not been conducted. |
| Approach: | They analyze a longitudinal dataset of 1.5M videos shared in the U.S. over three years and evaluate the effects of TikTok’s Creativity Program for monetization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves high precision in detecting harmful content, but its overall performance is comparable to fine-tuned traditional models such as RoBERTa. |