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

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

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