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Emilio Ferrara

Southern States University · US
Area of research
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · Sociology and Political Science
Research interest
Research interests include Misinformation and Its Impacts, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Social Media and Politics, and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection.
h-index
67
citations
19,358
works
1,823
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Information suppression in large language models: Auditing, quantifying, and characterizing censorship in DeepSeek
Information Sciences 2026cited by 4position: contributordoi
The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the Erosion of Trust, the Corrosion of Information Verification, and the Demise of Truth
Future Internet 2026cited by 2position: contributordoi
Lost Before Translation: Social Information Transmission and Survival in AI-AI Communication
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
MOSAIC: Unveiling the Moral, Social and Individual Dimensions of Large Language Models
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
No Free Lunch in Language Model Bias Mitigation? Targeted Bias Reduction Can Exacerbate Unmitigated LLM Biases
AI 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2025cited by 9position: contributordoi
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 9position: contributordoi
Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X
Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2025cited by 5position: contributordoi
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 3position: contributordoi
Safe spaces or toxic places? Content moderation and social dynamics of online eating disorder communities.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Communication Patterns Predict Team Skill in Multiplayer Online Games
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Limited Effectiveness of LLM-based Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Misinformation Stance Detection
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
STRIVE: Socio-behavioral Taxonomy Representation for Interactive Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Social-LLM: Modeling User Behavior at Scale Using Language Models and Social Network Data
Sci 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Network-informed Prompt Engineering against Organized Astroturf Campaigns under Extreme Class Imbalance
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Moral Values Underpinning COVID-19 Online Communication Patterns
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Liberals and conservatives share information differently on social media.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models
Journal of Computational Social Science 2024cited by 174position: contributordoi
The Butterfly Effect in artificial intelligence systems: Implications for AI bias and fairness
Machine Learning with Applications 2024cited by 91position: contributordoi
Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 2024cited by 23position: contributordoi
Large Language Models for Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition, Health Monitoring, and Behavioral Modeling: A Survey of Early Trends, Datasets, and Challenges.
2024cited by 18position: contributordoi
Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Influence Campaigns on Social Media
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 2024cited by 18position: contributordoi
Automated Claim Matching with Large Language Models: Empowering Fact-Checkers in the Fight Against Misinformation
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 2024cited by 13position: contributordoi
FACT-GPT: Fact-Checking Augmentation via Claim Matching with LLMs
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 2024cited by 12position: contributordoi
Attraction to politically extreme users on social media
PNAS Nexus 2024cited by 9position: contributordoi
Large Language Models for Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition, Health Monitoring, and Behavioral Modeling: A Survey of Early Trends, Datasets, and Challenges
2024cited by 9position: contributordoi

Grants

HCC: Small: The Evolution of Language Use in Online Communities
NSF2331722$600,0002024–2027PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 68 papers (2019–2026)Luca Luceri · Springer Nature17 papers (2023–2026)Kristina Lerman · LAC+USC Medical Center10 papers (2019–2022) · 10 papers (2020–2026)Julie Jiang · Public Library of Science9 papers (2021–2025) · 4 papers (2021–2021)Tiago H. Falk · Université du Québec à Montréal4 papers (2019–2020)Jinyi Ye · Tsinghua University4 papers (2024–2026)Xiang Ren · University of Southern California4 papers (2021–2021)Amrutha Nadarajan · University of Southern California3 papers (2019–2022)Dmitri Williams · University of Southern California3 papers (2025–2026)Fred Morstatter · SpringerNature3 papers (2020–2025)Alexander J. Bisberg · California Polytechnic State University3 papers (2025–2026)Shrikanth Narayanan · University of Southern California3 papers (2019–2019)Justin L'Hommedieu · University of Southern California3 papers (2019–2020)Brandon M. Booth · Elsevier, Inc.3 papers (2019–2022)Valerio La Gatta · Clarivate PLC3 papers (2023–2026)Eun Cheol Choi · Seoul National University3 papers (2024–2025)Keith Burghardt · Elsevier, Inc.3 papers (2020–2024)Michelle L'Hommedieu · University of Southern California3 papers (2019–2020)