Papers by Stefano Cresci
A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection (2022.coling-1)
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Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. |
| Approach: | They propose to tackle online multimodal offensive content using different modalities and combinations thereof. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach combines factuality and harmfulness in a framework that can be used for multiple modalities and combinations of modality. |
Insights into using temporal coordinated behaviour to explore connections between social media posts and influence (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Elisa Sartori, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi, Mauro Conti, Alessandro Galeazzi, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino
| Challenge: | Political campaigns often use coordinated behaviour to identify communities of users who exhibit similar patterns. |
| Approach: | They analysed messages users were exposed to during the UK 2019 election and compared those received by users who shifted communities with others covering the same topics. |
| Outcome: | The results show that political campaigns often use coordinated behaviour to identify communities of users who exhibit similar patterns. |