Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity During the 2023 Israel-Hamas War on Twitter

This study uncovers how coordinated campaigns shaped the information environment on Twitter during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, analyzing 4.5 million tweets across 11 coordinated groups using multimodal methods.

April 2026 · Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote, Priyanka Dey, Keng-Chi Chang, Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Cody Buntain, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Fil Menczer

Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection

This paper presents a machine learning framework to detect tweets that get coordinated replies as well as repliers involved in such attacks.

June 2025 · Manita Pote*, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations

Presents labeled datasets combining platform-verified IO posts with over 13M posts by 303k control accounts across 26 information operation campaigns.

June 2025 · Ozgur Can Seckin*, Manita Pote*, Alexander C. Nwala*, Lake Yin, Luca Luceri, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

Survey on Embedding Models for Knowledge Graph and its Applications

Surveys translation-based and neural network-based knowledge graph embedding models, discussing applications that leverage deep learning and social media data.

April 2024 · Manita Pote

Computational Propaganda Theory and Bot Detection System: Critical Literature Review

Reviews computational propaganda — the use of algorithms, automation, and human curation to distribute misleading information — and surveys bot detection systems developed to counter these threats.

April 2024 · Manita Pote

A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections

Introduces MEIU22, a multi-platform dataset covering 1,011 candidates from October to December 2022 across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and 4chan.

June 2023 · Rachith Aiyappa, Matthew R. DeVerna, Manita Pote*, Wanying Zhao*, Bao Tran Truong*, David Axelrod, Aria Pessianzadeh, Zoher Kachwala, Munjung Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Minsuk Kim, Sunny Gandhi, Amrutha Manikonda, Francesco Pierri, Filippo Menczer, Kai-Cheng Yang

Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions

Presents a method to estimate user deletion behavior on social media and investigates online manipulation tactics observed through deletion patterns, revealing coordinated inauthentic activity on Twitter.

May 2022 · Christopher Torres-Lugo*, Manita Pote*, Alexander C. Nwala, Filippo Menczer