Publications

SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice

Published in 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2023

Systemization of Knowledge (SoK) of content modertion in social media

Recommended citation: M. Singhal, C. Ling, P. Paudel, P. Thota, N. Kumarswamy, G. Stringhini and S.Nilizadeh “SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice,” 2023 IEEE 8th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10190527/

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PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter

Published in 33rd Usenix Security Symposium, 2024

Improving visual soft moderation using perceptual hashing and vector databases

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, C. Ling, J.Blackburn and G. Stringhini, “PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter,” 33rd Usenix Security Symposium, Philadelphia PA, USA, 2024

Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation

Published in 33rd Usenix Security Symposium, 2024

Improving contextual soft moderation using unsupervised stance detection

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, M.H. Saeed, R. Auger, C. Wells and G. Stringhini, “Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation,” 33rd Usenix Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2024

Unraveling the Web of Disinformation: Exploring the Larger Context of State-Sponsored Influence Campaigns on Twitter

Published in 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, 2023

Improving textual soft moderation on Twitter using Learning To Rank

Recommended citation: Saeed, Mohammad Hammas, et al. "Unraveling the Web of Disinformation: Exploring the Larger Context of State-Sponsored Influence Campaigns on Twitter." Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses. 2024. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3678890.3678911

From colorblind to systemic racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd

Published in PLOS One, 2023

Using topic modeling and network science to understand higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd.

Recommended citation: N. Toraif, N. Gondal, P. Paudel and A. Frisellaa, “From colorblind to systemic racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd,” PLoS one 18.8 (2023): e0289545. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289545

Lambretta: Learning To Rank For Twitter Soft Moderation

Published in 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2023

Improving textual soft moderation on Twitter using Learning To Rank

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, J. Blackburn, E. De Cristofaro, S. Zannettou and G. Stringhini, “Lambretta: Learning To Rank For Twitter Soft Moderation,” 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10179392

A longitudinal study of the Gettr social network

Published in International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2022), 2023

Data-driven Characterization of alternate social network called Gettr

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, J. Blackburn, E. De Cristofaro, S. Zannettou and G. Stringhini, “A longitudinal study of the Gettr social network,” International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats, 2022. https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2022_62.pdf

Soros, child sacrifices, and 5G: understanding the spread of conspiracy theories on web communities

Published in arxiv (Preprint), 2021

Data-driven Characterization of conspiracy theories spread on social media platforms

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, J. Blackburn, E. De Cristofaro, S. Zannettou and G. Stringhini, “Soros, child sacrifices, and 5G: understanding the spread of conspiracy theories on web communities,” arXiv preprint, 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02187

How the tables have turned: Studying the new wave of social bots on Twitter using complex network analysis techniques

Published in International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2020

Analysis of new wave of social bots using network science techniques

Recommended citation: P. Paudel, TT. Nguyen, A. Hatua and AH. Sung, “How the tables have turned: Studying the new wave of social bots on Twitter using complex network analysis techniques,” 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3341161.3342898