Stefano Cresci

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2014-2024
Publications (10 Years): 93

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WebSci

WWW (Companion Volume)

ICWSM

Publications

Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy. WebSci (2024)
Lorenzo Cima, Amaury Trujillo, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci
The Great Ban: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of a Massive Deplatforming Operation on Reddit. CoRR (2024)
Lorenzo Cima, Lorenzo Mannocci, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci
Coordinated Behavior in Information Operations on Twitter. IEEE Access 12 (2024)
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election. EPJ Data Sci. 13 (1) (2024)
Lluís Garcia Pueyo, Symeon Papadopoulos, Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Aristides Gionis, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Vasilis Verroios, Giuseppe Manco, Anton Andryeyev, Stefano Cresci, Timos Sellis, Anthony McCosker
Integrity 2024: Integrity in Social Networks and Media. WSDM (2024)
Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso, Stefano Cresci, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri
Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up to the US Capitol Attack. ICWSM (2024)
Benedetta Tessa, Lorenzo Cima, Amaury Trujillo, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci
Beyond Trial-and-Error: Predicting User Abandonment After a Moderation Intervention. CoRR (2024)
Lorenzo Cima, Amaury Trujillo, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci
The Great Ban: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of a Massive Deplatforming Operation on Reddit. WebSci (Companion) (2024)
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy. CoRR (2024)
Serena Tardelli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi, Mauro Conti, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Stefano Cresci
Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Online Behavior: Stability, Archetypes, and Influence. CoRR (2023)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi, Marinella Petrocchi
Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research. CoRR (2023)
Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso, Stefano Cresci, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri
Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up To the US Capitol Attack. CoRR (2023)
Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Stefano Cresci, Aleksandra Urman, Silvia Giordano
Dynamics of Toxic Behavior in the Covid-19 Vaccination Debate. COMPLEX NETWORKS (4) (2023)
Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Guglielmo Cola, Stefano Cresci, Tiziano Fagni, Margherita Gambini, Lorenzo Mannocci, Michele Mazza, Caterina Senette, Maurizio Tesconi
Cyber Intelligence and Social Media Analytics: Current Research Trends and Challenges. Ital-IA (2023)
Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Stefano Cresci, Aleksandra Urman, Silvia Giordano
Dynamics of toxic behavior in the Covid-19 vaccination debate. CoRR (2023)
Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Petter Törnberg, Silvia Giordano
Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic. CoRR (2023)
Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Stefano Cresci, Aleksandra Urman, Gianluca Nogara, Silvia Giordano
User's Reaction Patterns in Online Social Network Communities. CoRR (2023)
Amaury Trujillo, Stefano Cresci
One of Many: Assessing User-level Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. WebSci (2023)
Amaury Trujillo, Tiziano Fagni, Stefano Cresci
The DSA Transparency Database: Auditing Self-reported Moderation Actions by Social Media. CoRR (2023)
Michele Mazza, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Investigating the difference between trolls, social bots, and humans on Twitter. Comput. Commun. 196 (2022)
Stefano Cresci, Amaury Trujillo, Tiziano Fagni
Personalized Interventions for Online Moderation. CoRR (2022)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
Adversarial Machine Learning for Protecting Against Online Manipulation. IEEE Internet Comput. 26 (2) (2022)
Amaury Trujillo, Stefano Cresci
Make Reddit Great Again: Assessing Community Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 6 (CSCW2) (2022)
Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Anna Monreale, Athina Vakali, Maurizio Tesconi
MulBot: Unsupervised Bot Detection Based on Multivariate Time Series. CoRR (2022)
Amaury Trujillo, Stefano Cresci
Make Reddit Great Again: Assessing Community Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. CoRR (2022)
Tiziano Fagni, Stefano Cresci
Fine-Grained Prediction of Political Leaning on Social Media with Unsupervised Deep Learning. CoRR (2022)
Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov
A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection. COLING (2022)
Ali F. Al-Qahtani, Stefano Cresci
The COVID-19 scamdemic: A survey of phishing attacks and their countermeasures during COVID-19. IET Inf. Secur. 16 (5) (2022)
Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Cresci
Metaverse: Security and Privacy Issues. CoRR (2022)
Stefano Cresci, Amaury Trujillo, Tiziano Fagni
Personalized Interventions for Online Moderation. HT (2022)
Matteo Cinelli, Stefano Cresci, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi, Paola Zola
Coordinated inauthentic behavior and information spreading on Twitter. Decis. Support Syst. 160 (2022)
Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci
Detecting inorganic financial campaigns on Twitter. Inf. Syst. 103 (2022)
Christian Grimme, Janina Pohl, Stefano Cresci, Ralf Lüling, Mike Preuss
New Automation for Social Bots: From Trivial Behavior to AI-Powered Communication. MISDOOM (2022)
Tiziano Fagni, Stefano Cresci
Fine-grained Prediction of Political Leaning on Social Media with Unsupervised Deep Learning. J. Artif. Intell. Res. 73 (2022)
Amaury Trujillo, Stefano Cresci
One of Many: Assessing User-level Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. CoRR (2022)
Kristina Hristakieva, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino, Mauro Conti, Preslav Nakov
The Spread of Propaganda by Coordinated Communities on Social Media. WebSci (2022)
Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Anna Monreale, Athina Vakali, Maurizio Tesconi
MulBot: Unsupervised Bot Detection Based on Multivariate Time Series. Big Data (2022)
Amaury Trujillo, Stefano Cresci
Make Reddit Great Again: Assessing Community Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 6 (CSCW2) (2022)
Gennady L. Andrienko, Natalia V. Andrienko, Chiara Boldrini, Guido Caldarelli, Paolo Cintia, Stefano Cresci, Angelo Facchini, Fosca Giannotti, Aristides Gionis, Riccardo Guidotti, Michael Mathioudakis, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Luca Pappalardo, Dino Pedreschi, Evangelos Pournaras, Francesca Pratesi, Maurizio Tesconi, Roberto Trasarti
(So) Big Data and the transformation of the city. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 11 (4) (2021)
Vasiliki Voukelatou, Lorenzo Gabrielli, Ioanna Miliou, Stefano Cresci, Rajesh Sharma, Maurizio Tesconi, Luca Pappalardo
Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 11 (4) (2021)
Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov
A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection. CoRR (2021)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
Adversarial machine learning for protecting against online manipulation. CoRR (2021)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
The coming age of adversarial social bot detection. First Monday 26 (6) (2021)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election. ICWSM (2021)
Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Cresci
Metaverse: Security and Privacy Issues. TPS-ISA (2021)
Kristina Hristakieva, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino, Mauro Conti, Preslav Nakov
The Spread of Propaganda by Coordinated Communities on Social Media. CoRR (2021)
Marcelo Mendoza, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci
Bots in Social and Interaction Networks: Detection and Impact Estimation. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 39 (1) (2020)
Emilio Ferrara, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri
Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19. J. Comput. Soc. Sci. 3 (2) (2020)
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A decade of social bot detection. Commun. ACM 63 (10) (2020)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci
Geo-semantic-parsing: AI-powered geoparsing by traversing semantic knowledge graphs. Decis. Support Syst. 136 (2020)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of twitter users. Comput. Commun. 150 (2020)
Giovanni Da San Martino, Stefano Cresci, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Seunghak Yu, Roberto Di Pietro, Preslav Nakov
A Survey on Computational Propaganda Detection. CoRR (2020)
Marco Avvenuti, Salvatore Bellomo, Stefano Cresci, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi
Towards better social crisis data with HERMES: Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency ManagEment System. Pervasive Mob. Comput. 67 (2020)
Maurantonio Caprolu, Stefano Cresci, Simone Raponi, Roberto Di Pietro
New Dimensions of Information Warfare: The Economic Pillar - Fintech and Cryptocurrencies. CRiSIS (2020)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, Emilio Ferrara
Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. IEEE Access 8 (2020)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, Emilio Ferrara
Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. CoRR (2020)
Giovanni Da San Martino, Stefano Cresci, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Seunghak Yu, Roberto Di Pietro, Preslav Nakov
A Survey on Computational Propaganda Detection. IJCAI (2020)
Yesim Tonga Uriarte, Marinella Petrocchi, Maria Luisa Catoni, Stefano Cresci, Rocco De Nicola, Maurizio Tesconi, Rafael Brundo Uriarte
Exploring the relation between festivals and host cities on Twitter: a study on the impacts of Lucca Comics & Games. J. Inf. Technol. Tour. 22 (4) (2020)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election. CoRR (2020)
Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci
Characterizing Social Bots Spreading Financial Disinformation. HCI (14) (2020)
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A Decade of Social Bot Detection. CoRR (2020)
Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi
RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter. CoRR (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Cashtag Piggybacking: Uncovering Spam and Bot Activity in Stock Microblogs on Twitter. ACM Trans. Web 13 (2) (2019)
Matteo Cinelli, Stefano Cresci, Alessandro Galeazzi, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi
The Limited Reach of Fake News on Twitter during 2019 European Elections. CoRR (2019)
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Detecting Malicious Social Bots: Story of a Never-Ending Clash. MISDOOM (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Maurizio Tesconi
Semantically-Aware Statistical Metrics via Weighting Kernels. DSAA (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
Better Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection. WebSci (2019)
Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi
RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter. WebSci (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
On the capability of evolved spambots to evade detection via genetic engineering. Online Soc. Networks Media 9 (2019)
Leonardo Nizzoli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Extremist Propaganda Tweet Classification with Deep Learning in Realistic Scenarios. WebSci (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Salvatore Minutoli, Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Enriching Digital Libraries with Crowdsensed Data - Twitter Monitor and the SoBigData Ecosystem. IRCDL (2019)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
Better Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection. CoRR (2019)
Marco Avvenuti, Salvatore Bellomo, Stefano Cresci, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi
Towards better social crisis data with HERMES: Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency ManagEment System. CoRR (2019)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Fabio Del Vigna, Tiziano Fagni, Maurizio Tesconi
CrisMap: a Big Data Crisis Mapping System Based on Damage Detection and Geoparsing. Inf. Syst. Frontiers 20 (5) (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
Cashtag piggybacking: uncovering spam and bot activity in stock microblogs on Twitter. CoRR (2018)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Leonardo Nizzoli, Maurizio Tesconi
GSP (Geo-Semantic-Parsing): Geoparsing and Geotagging with Machine Learning on Top of Linked Data. ESWC (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi
$FAKE: Evidence of Spam and Bot Activity in Stock Microblogs on Twitter. ICWSM (2018)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Fabio Del Vigna, Maurizio Tesconi
On the need of opening up crowdsourced emergency management systems. AI Soc. 33 (1) (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Social Fingerprinting: Detection of Spambot Groups Through DNA-Inspired Behavioral Modeling. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 15 (4) (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
From Reaction to Proaction: Unexplored Ways to the Detection of Evolving Spambots. WWW (Companion Volume) (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Andrea Cimino, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Felice Dell'Orletta
Real-World Witness Detection in Social Media via Hybrid Crowdsensing. ICWSM (2018)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Social Fingerprinting: detection of spambot groups through DNA-inspired behavioral modeling. CoRR (2017)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race. CoRR (2017)
Marco Avvenuti, Salvatore Bellomo, Stefano Cresci, Mariantonietta Noemi La Polla, Maurizio Tesconi
Hybrid Crowdsensing: A Novel Paradigm to Combine the Strengths of Opportunistic and Participatory Crowdsensing. WWW (Companion Volume) (2017)
Lucia Vadicamo, Fabio Carrara, Andrea Cimino, Stefano Cresci, Felice Dell'Orletta, Fabrizio Falchi, Maurizio Tesconi
Cross-Media Learning for Image Sentiment Analysis in the Wild. ICCV Workshops (2017)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Mariantonietta Noemi La Polla, Carlo Meletti, Maurizio Tesconi
Nowcasting of Earthquake Consequences Using Big Social Data. IEEE Internet Comput. 21 (6) (2017)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race. WWW (Companion Volume) (2017)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Exploiting Digital DNA for the Analysis of Similarities in Twitter Behaviours. DSAA (2017)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Andrea Marchetti, Carlo Meletti, Maurizio Tesconi
Predictability or Early Warning: Using Social Media in Modern Emergency Response. IEEE Internet Comput. 20 (6) (2016)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Fabio Del Vigna, Maurizio Tesconi
Impromptu Crisis Mapping to Prioritize Emergency Response. Computer 49 (5) (2016)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
DNA-inspired online behavioral modeling and its application to spambot detection. CoRR (2016)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
DNA-Inspired Online Behavioral Modeling and Its Application to Spambot Detection. IEEE Intell. Syst. 31 (5) (2016)
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Maurizio Tesconi, Roberto Di Pietro, Angelo Spognardi
Social Fingerprinting - or the Truth About You. ERCIM News 2016 (106) (2016)
Stefano Cresci, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta, Maurizio Tesconi
Crisis Mapping During Natural Disasters via Text Analysis of Social Media Messages. WISE (2) (2015)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Fame for sale: Efficient detection of fake Twitter followers. Decis. Support Syst. 80 (2015)
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
Fame for sale: efficient detection of fake Twitter followers. CoRR (2015)
Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta
A Linguistically-driven Approach to Cross-Event Damage Assessment of Natural Disasters from Social Media Messages. WWW (Companion Volume) (2015)
Stefano Cresci, Davide Gazzè, Angelica Lo Duca, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesconi
Geo Data Annotator: a Web Framework for Collaborative Annotation of Geographical Datasets. WWW (Companion Volume) (2015)
Marco Avvenuti, Fabio Del Vigna, Stefano Cresci, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesconi
Pulling Information from social media in the aftermath of unpredictable disasters. ICT-DM (2015)
Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Mariantonietta Noemi La Polla, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesconi
Earthquake emergency management by social sensing. PerCom Workshops (2014)

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