Filippo Menczer

Orcid: 0000-0003-4384-2876

Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA


According to our database1, Filippo Menczer authored at least 230 papers between 1992 and 2024.

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ACM Fellow 2020, "For research on the vulnerability of social media networks to disinformation and manipulation".

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2024
Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks.
EPJ Data Sci., December, 2024

Factuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking.
Nat. Mac. Intell., 2024

Information diffusion assumptions can distort our understanding of social network dynamics.
CoRR, 2024

Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection.
CoRR, 2024

Social media algorithms can curb misinformation, but do they?
CoRR, 2024

The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening.
CoRR, 2024

Effects of Antivaccine Tweets on COVID-19 Vaccinations, Cases, and Deaths.
CoRR, 2024

Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure.
CoRR, 2024

Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by misinformed populations.
CoRR, 2024

Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces.
CoRR, 2024

REMATCH: Robust and Efficient Matching of Local Knowledge Graphs to Improve Structural and Semantic Similarity.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, 2024

2023
A language framework for modeling social media account behavior.
EPJ Data Sci., December, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, December, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, November, 2023

Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
Commun. ACM, September, 2023

Addressing the harms of AI-generated inauthentic content.
Nat. Mac. Intell., July, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Top FIB Misinformation Superspreaders.
Dataset, May, 2023

Social Bots: Detection and Challenges.
CoRR, 2023

Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2023

Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for fact checking.
CoRR, 2023

Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet.
CoRR, 2023

Friction Interventions to Curb the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media.
CoRR, 2023

The science of fake news.
CoRR, 2023

Large language models can rate news outlet credibility.
CoRR, 2023

A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

2022
Botometer 101: social bot practicum for computational social scientists.
J. Comput. Soc. Sci., November, 2022

Correction to: Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers.
J. Comput. Soc. Sci., November, 2022

How Twitter data sampling biases U.S. voter behavior characterizations.
PeerJ Comput. Sci., 2022

A General Language for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior.
CoRR, 2022

One year of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Twitter.
CoRR, 2022

Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media.
CoRR, 2022

News Sharing Networks Expose Information Polluters on Social Media.
CoRR, 2022

Following the Trail of Fake News Spreaders in Social Media: A Deep Learning Model.
Proceedings of the UMAP '22: 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Barcelona, Spain, July 4, 2022

Do Recommender Systems Make Social Media More Susceptible to Misinformation Spreaders?
Proceedings of the RecSys '22: Sixteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Seattle, WA, USA, September 18, 2022

The Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Manipulating Twitter through Deletions.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Ukraine as a Political Tool in Facebook Sponsored Content.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2022

2021
IUNetSci/DrifterBot.
Dataset, May, 2021

The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook.
Big Data Soc., January, 2021

Fakey: A Game Intervention to Improve News Literacy on Social Media.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots.
New Media Soc., 2021

Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers.
J. Comput. Soc. Sci., 2021

Can the Wikipedia moderation model rescue the social marketplace of ideas?
CoRR, 2021

The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations.
CoRR, 2021

CoVaxxy: A global collection of English Twitter posts about COVID-19 vaccines.
CoRR, 2021

On the challenges of predicting microscopic dynamics of online conversations.
Appl. Netw. Sci., 2021

Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-Language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

2020
Precipitation and Temperature Anomalies from MERRA-2 dataset.
Dataset, November, 2020

Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations.
Quant. Sci. Stud., 2020

An Agenda for Disinformation Research.
CoRR, 2020

The Manufacture of Political Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter.
CoRR, 2020

Right and left, partisanship predicts vulnerability to misinformation.
CoRR, 2020

Political audience diversity and news reliability in algorithmic ranking.
CoRR, 2020

Neutral Bots Reveal Political Bias on Social Media.
CoRR, 2020

Exposure to Social Engagement Metrics Increases Vulnerability to Misinformation.
CoRR, 2020

Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media.
CoRR, 2020

Unveiling Coordinated Groups Behind White Helmets Disinformation.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2020 Web Conference 2020, 2020

4 Reasons Why Social Media Make Us Vulnerable to Manipulation.
Proceedings of the RecSys 2020: Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2020

Prevalence of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2020

BotSlayer: DIY Real-Time Influence Campaign Detection.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2020

Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers.
Proceedings of the CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020

Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019
Web clicks from Indiana University.
Dataset, April, 2019

Domain shares on Twitter containing news and misinformation.
Dataset, February, 2019

Domain shares on Twitter containing news and misinformation.
Dataset, February, 2019

BotSlayer: real-time detection of bot amplification on Twitter.
J. Open Source Softw., 2019

Quantifying Biases in Online Information Exposure.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2019

Information Pollution by Social Bots.
CoRR, 2019

On the Inevitability of Online Echo Chambers.
CoRR, 2019

Arming the public with AI to counter social bots.
CoRR, 2019

Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Massive Multi-agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem.
Proceedings of the Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection, 2019

The DARPA SocialSim Challenge: Massive Multi-Agent Simulations of the Github Ecosystem.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

2018
Dataset for paper: The spread of low-credibility content by social bots.
Dataset, October, 2018

Anatomy of an online misinformation network.
Dataset, January, 2018

Ultra High-Dimensional Nonlinear Feature Selection for Big Biological Data.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2018

Anatomy of an online misinformation network.
CoRR, 2018

Research Challenges of Digital Misinformation: Toward a Trustworthy Web.
AI Mag., 2018

The Hoaxy Misinformation and Fact-Checking Diffusion Network.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

2017
Early detection of promoted campaigns on social media.
EPJ Data Sci., 2017

RelSifter: Scoring Triples from Type-like Relations - The Samphire Triple Scorer at WSDM Cup 2017.
CoRR, 2017

The spread of fake news by social bots.
CoRR, 2017

Lack of quality discrimination in online information markets.
CoRR, 2017

How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality.
CoRR, 2017

Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2017 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.
AI Mag., 2017

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2017

Finding Streams in Knowledge Graphs to Support Fact Checking.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2017

2016
Mining for Topics to Suggest Knowledge Model Extensions.
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data, 2016

OSoMe: The IUNI observatory on social media.
PeerJ Prepr., 2016

Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia.
EPJ Data Sci., 2016

The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge.
CoRR, 2016

Kinsey Reporter: Citizen Science for Sex Research.
CoRR, 2016

The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge.
Computer, 2016

The rise of social bots.
Commun. ACM, 2016

Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

On the Influence of Social Bots in Online Protests - Preliminary Findings of a Mexican Case Study.
Proceedings of the Social Informatics - 8th International Conference, 2016

Detection of Promoted Social Media Campaigns.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2016

2015
Measuring online social bubbles.
PeerJ Comput. Sci., 2015

Quality versus quantity in scientific impact.
J. Informetrics, 2015

Attention on Weak Ties in Social and Communication Networks.
CoRR, 2015

Computational fact checking from knowledge networks.
CoRR, 2015

Fact-checking Effect on Viral Hoaxes: A Model of Misinformation Spread in Social Networks.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 2015

A Role for Network Science in Social Norms Intervention.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 2015

First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, 2015

2014
Clustering memes in social media streams.
Soc. Netw. Anal. Min., 2014

On the use of sampling statistics to advance bibliometrics.
J. Informetrics, 2014

Fast filtering and animation of large dynamic networks.
EPJ Data Sci., 2014

Topicality and Social Impact: Diverse Messages but Focused Messengers.
CoRR, 2014

Impact, productivity, and scientific excellence.
CoRR, 2014

The production of information in the attention economy.
CoRR, 2014

Connecting dream networks across cultures.
Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

Evolution of online user behavior during a social upheaval.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference, 2014

Scholarometer: a system for crowdsourcing scholarly impact metrics.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference, 2014

Predicting Successful Memes Using Network and Community Structure.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2014

Supporting a Social Media Observatory with Customizable Index Structures: Architecture and Performance.
Proceedings of the Cloud Computing for Data-Intensive Applications, 2014

2013
Computational Analysis of Collective Behaviors via Agent-Based Modeling.
Proceedings of the Handbook of Human Computation, 2013

Universality of scholarly impact metrics.
J. Informetrics, 2013

Ambiguous author query detection using crowdsourced digital library annotations.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2013

Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks.
CoRR, 2013

Fast animation of large dynamic networks.
CoRR, 2013

The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street.
CoRR, 2013

The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network.
CoRR, 2013

Design and prototyping of a social media observatory.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

The role of information diffusion in the evolution of social networks.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2013

Truthy: enabling the study of online social networks.
Proceedings of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2013

Traveling trends: social butterflies or frequent fliers?
Proceedings of the Conference on Online Social Networks, 2013

Clustering memes in social media.
Proceedings of the Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2013, 2013

2012
Friendship prediction and homophily in social media.
ACM Trans. Web, 2012

Partisan asymmetries in online political activity.
EPJ Data Sci., 2012

Context Visualization for Social Bookmark Management
CoRR, 2012

Social Dynamics of Science
CoRR, 2012

Visualizing Communication on Social Media: Making Big Data Accessible
CoRR, 2012

The diffusion of political memes in social media: keynote abstract.
Proceedings of the first edition workshop on Politics, elections and data, 2012

2011
Contextual tag inference.
ACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl., 2011

Properties and Evolution of Internet Traffic Networks from Anonymized Flow Data.
ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 2011

A Semantic Framework for Evaluating Topical Search Methods.
CLEI Electron. J., 2011

Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2011

Detecting Ambiguous Author Names in Crowdsourced Scholarly Data.
Proceedings of the PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, Privacy, 2011

Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users.
Proceedings of the PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, Privacy, 2011

Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

Political Polarization on Twitter.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

The chain model for social tagging game design.
Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games, 2011

Behavior-driven clustering of queries into topics.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

Design of social games for collecting reliable semantic annotations.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Games, 2011

2010
Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog Streams
CoRR, 2010

Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity
CoRR, 2010

Agents, Bookmarks and Clicks: A topical model of Web traffic
CoRR, 2010

Folks in Folksonomies: social link prediction from shared metadata.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2010

Modeling Traffic on the Web Graph.
Proceedings of the Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph - 7th International Workshop, 2010

Traffic in Social Media II: Modeling Bursty Popularity.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, 2010

Traffic in Social Media I: Paths Through Information Networks.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, 2010

Agents, bookmarks and clicks: a topical model of web navigation.
Proceedings of the HT'10, 2010

GiveALink tagging game: an incentive for social annotation.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, 2010

2009
Beyond Zipf's law: Modeling the structure of human language
CoRR, 2009

Evaluating similarity measures for emergent semantics of social tagging.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2009

Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web traffic.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2009

Incentives for social annotation.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Diverse peer selection in collaborative web search.
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2009

What's in a session: tracking individual behavior on the web.
Proceedings of the HYPERTEXT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, June 29, 2009

A scalable, collaborative similarity measure for social annotation systems.
Proceedings of the HYPERTEXT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, June 29, 2009

Sixearch.org 2.0 peer application for collaborative web search.
Proceedings of the HYPERTEXT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, June 29, 2009

Social spam detection.
Proceedings of the AIRWeb 2009, 2009

2008
Torino (Italy) to host the 20th ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia Conference in June 2009.
SIGWEB Newsl., 2008

Visual comparison of search results: A censorship case study.
First Monday, 2008

Intelligent Peer Networks for Collaborative Web Search.
AI Mag., 2008

Ranking web sites with real user traffic.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2008

Efficient assembly of social semantic networks.
Proceedings of the HYPERTEXT 2008, 2008

Visualizing social links in exploratory search.
Proceedings of the HYPERTEXT 2008, 2008

2007
Introduction to the special topic section on mining Web resources for enhancing information retrieval.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2007

On Local Estimations of PageRank: A Mean Field Approach.
Internet Math., 2007

Social phishing.
Commun. ACM, 2007

2006
Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity.
World Wide Web, 2006

Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006

Optimal ensemble construction via meta-evolutionary ensembles.
Expert Syst. Appl., 2006

Approximating PageRank from In-Degree.
Proceedings of the Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, Fourth International Workshop, 2006

Emerging semantic communities in peer web search.
Proceedings of the international workshop on Information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks, 2006

Bookmark Hierarchies and Collaborative Recommendation.
Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2006

2005
Customer Targeting: A Neural Network Approach Guided by Genetic Algorithms.
Manag. Sci., 2005

A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers.
Inf. Retr., 2005

Mapping the Semantics of Web Text and Links.
IEEE Internet Comput., 2005

How to make the top ten: Approximating PageRank from in-degree
CoRR, 2005

The egalitarian effect of search engines
CoRR, 2005

Adaptive query routing in peer web search.
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, 2005

On the lack of typical behavior in the global Web traffic network.
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, 2005

Algorithmic detection of semantic similarity.
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, 2005

GiveALink: mining a semantic network of bookmarks for web search and recommendation.
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery, 2005

6S: Distributing Crawling and Searching Across Web Peers.
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, 2005

2004
Topical web crawlers: Evaluating adaptive algorithms.
ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 2004

Lexical and semantic clustering by Web links.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2004

Combining link and content analysis to estimate semantic similarity.
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web, 2004

Small world peer networks in distributed web search.
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web, 2004

Using Hyperlink Features to Personalize Web Search.
Proceedings of the Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, 2004

Dynamic extraction topic descriptors and discriminators: towards automatic context-based topic search.
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004

Crawling the Web.
Proceedings of the Web Dynamics - Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use, 2004

2003
Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs.
login Usenix Mag., 2003

Complementing search engines with online web mining agents.
Decis. Support Syst., 2003

Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service
CoRR, 2003

Topical Crawling for Business Intelligence.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003

Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003

2002
Growing and navigating the small world Web by local content.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2002

Evolutionary model selection in unsupervised learning.
Intell. Data Anal., 2002

Adaptive Assistants for Customized E-Shopping.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2002

Navigating the Small World Web by Textual Cues
CoRR, 2002

MySpiders: Evolve Your Own Intelligent Web Crawlers.
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2002

Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Web Dynamics, 2002

IntelliShopper: a proactive, personal, private shopping assistant.
Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2002

2001
Emerging small-world referral networks in evolutionary labor markets.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2001

OAMulator: a teaching resource to introduce computer architecture concepts.
ACM J. Educ. Resour. Comput., 2001

Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content
CoRR, 2001

Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

An evolutionary multi-objective local selection algorithm for customer targeting.
Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2001

2000
Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web.
Mach. Learn., 2000

Efficient and Scalable Pareto Optimization by Evolutionary Local Selection Algorithms.
Evol. Comput., 2000

Feature selection in unsupervised learning via evolutionary search.
Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2000

1998
ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned.
Proceedings of the Virtual Worlds, First International Conference, 1998

Local Selection.
Proceedings of the Evolutionary Programming VII, 7th International Conference, 1998

Adaptive Information Agents in Distributed Textual Environments.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1998

1997
ARCCHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 1997), 1997

1996
From Complex Environments to Complex Behaviors.
Adapt. Behav., 1996

1995
Maturation and the Evolution of Imitative Learning in Artificial Organisms.
Adapt. Behav., 1995

1992
Evidence of hyperplanes in the genetic learning of neural networks.
Biol. Cybern., 1992


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