Menczer, Filippo

The science of fake news

Lazer, D. M. J., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., Metzger, M. J., Nyhan, B., Pennycook, G., Rothschild, D., et al. (2018) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsAcademic Publishing and Open Access

Cited by 4,160

The rise of social bots

Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2016) · Communications of the ACM

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 1,973

Political Polarization on Twitter

Conover, M., Ratkiewicz, J., Francisco, M., Goncalves, B., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2011) · Zenodo

Social Media and PoliticsOpinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Cited by 1,254

Social phishing

Jagatic, T. N., Johnson, N. A., Jakobsson, M., & Menczer, F. (2007) · Communications of the ACM

Spam and Phishing DetectionPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection

Cited by 1,156

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G. L., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2018) · Nature Communications

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 1,125

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2017) · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 928

BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

Davis, C. A., Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2016) · Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web - WWW 16 Companion

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 909

Political Polarization on Twitter

Conover, M., Ratkiewicz, J., Francisco, M., Goncalves, B., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2021) · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Social Media and PoliticsMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 626

Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users

Conover, M. D., Goncalves, B., Ratkiewicz, J., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2011) · 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing

Social Media and PoliticsSentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Cited by 588

Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks

Ciampaglia, G. L., Shiralkar, P., Rocha, L. M., Bollen, J., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2015) · PLOS ONE

Misinformation and Its ImpactsComplex Network Analysis Techniques

Cited by 486

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Yang, K., Varol, O., Davis, C. A., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2019) · Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 419

Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal

Pierri, F., Perry, B. L., DeVerna, M. R., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., Menczer, F., & Bryden, J. (2022) · Scientific Reports

Vaccine Coverage and HesitancyMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 264

Partisan asymmetries in online political activity

Conover, M. D., Gonçalves, B., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2012) · EPJ Data Science

Social Media and PoliticsComplex Network Analysis Techniques

Cited by 234

Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers

Sasahara, K., Chen, W., Peng, H., Ciampaglia, G. L., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2021) · Journal of Computational Social Science

Opinion Dynamics and Social InfluenceSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 211

Measuring online social bubbles

Nikolov, D., Oliveira, D. F. M., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2015) · PeerJ Computer Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 205

How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality

Ciampaglia, G. L., Nematzadeh, A., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2018) · Scientific Reports

Complex Network Analysis TechniquesRecommender Systems and Techniques

Cited by 204

Factuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking

Augenstein, I., Baldwin, T., Cha, M., Chakraborty, T., Ciampaglia, G. L., Corney, D., DiResta, R., Ferrara, E., Hale, S., Halevy, A., et al. (2024) · Nature Machine Intelligence

Misinformation and Its ImpactsTopic Modeling

Cited by 187

Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers

Sayyadiharikandeh, M., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2020) · Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 159

Botometer 101: social bot practicum for computational social scientists

Yang, K.-C., Ferrara, E., & Menczer, F. (2022) · Journal of Computational Social Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 159

Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies

Pacheco, D., Hui, P.-M., Torres-Lugo, C., Truong, B. T., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2021) · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 140

Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

Wagner, C., Graells-Garrido, E., Garcia, D., & Menczer, F. (2016) · EPJ Data Science

Wikis in Education and CollaborationEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 115

Accuracy and Political Bias of News Source Credibility Ratings by Large Language Models

Yang, K.-C., & Menczer, F. (2023) · arXiv

Misinformation and Its ImpactsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 115

Quantifying Biases in Online Information Exposure

Nikolov, D., Lalmas, M., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2019) · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Misinformation and Its ImpactsInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 96

Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation

Avram, M., Micallef, N., Patil, S., & Menczer, F. (2020) · Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Misinformation and Its ImpactsComplex Network Analysis Techniques

Cited by 83