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.
Presents labeled datasets combining platform-verified IO posts with over 13M posts by 303k control accounts across 26 information operation campaigns.
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).
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.
Introduces MEIU22, a multi-platform dataset covering 1,011 candidates from October to December 2022 across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and 4chan.
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.