Emiliano De Cristofaro

TL;DR: This analysis of /pol/, the discussion-board site 4chan, provides the first measurement study of the site, and insight into online harassment and hate speech trends in social media.

TL;DR: This article analyzed data from r/The_Donald and r/Incels, two communities that were banned from Reddit and subsequently migrated to their own standalone websites, and found that community-level moderation measures significantly decreased posting activity on the new platform, reducing the number of posts, active users, and newcomers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the methodology and results of a measurement analysis of the leaked Blue Coat logs, revealing a relatively stealthy, yet quite targeted, censorship, and find that traffic is filtered in several ways: using IP addresses and domain names to block subnets or websites, and keywords or categories to target specific content.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed 27k tweets posted by 1k Twitter users identified as having ties with Russia's Internet Research Agency and thus likely state-sponsored trolls, and quantified the influence that trolls had on the dissemination of news on social platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan.

TL;DR: This paper introduces PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing Infrastructure, a minimal set of formal requirements aiming at protecting privacy of both data producers and consumers and presents an instantiation that attains privacy guarantees with provable security at very low additional computational cost and almost no extra communication overhead.