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

Coordinated Reply Attacks: Characterization and Detection

Code repository for the ICWSM 2025 paper on coordinated reply attacks — includes ML classifiers to detect targeted tweets (AUC 0.88) and coordinated accounts (AUC 0.97).

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