In The News

  • “On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities”. Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Guillermo Suarez-Tangil. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2018.
    In the news: Trending – BBC World Service, CBS news, QUARTZ, Business Insider, Nerdcore, MIT Technology Review, VICE, InfoWars, Dailydot, Indy100, Thinkprogress, Iflscience, Hornet.
  • “What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?”. Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Haewoon Kwak, Jeremy Blackburn. Workshop on Computational Methods in CyberSafety, Online Harassment and Misinformation, 2018.
    In the news : New Scientist.
  • “Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web”. Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn. ArXiv, 2018.
    In the news: The Register.
  • “The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources”. Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn. AMC Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.
    In the news: The Atlantic, Benthamsgaze, Hackingdistributed, UAB News.
  • “Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web”. Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.
    In the news: Nature.com, La Stampa, Motherboard Vice, Paideia News, The Conversation, Repubblica.
  • “Network science: Luck or reason, Nature Physics Research Highlights”. Cyprus University of Technology, University of California—San Diego, University of Barcelona
    In the news: Network science: Luck or reason
    Press : Nature Physics Research Highlights, Cyprus Univ. of Tech., UCSD, U. Barcelona, AMS, Science Daily, Le ScienzeNeue Zuercher Zeitung, PhysOrg, ACM TechNews
  • “Geometric correlations mitigate the extreme vulnerability of multiplex networks against targeted attacks”. Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg, Lubos Buzna, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Marian Boguna, and M. Angeles Serrano. American Physical Society (APS), 2017.
    In the news: zhcs.ch
  • “Hidden geometric correlations in real multiplex networks”. Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg, Marian Boguna, M. Angeles Serrano, and Fragkiskos Papadopoulos. Nature Physics , 2016
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