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  1. Detection and Characterization of Coordinated Online Behavior: A Survey

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, August 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  2. Assessing the Reliability of Persona-Conditioned LLMs as Synthetic Survey Respondents

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  3. The DSA Transparency Database: Auditing Self-reported Moderation Actions by Social Media

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  4. Contextualized Counterspeech: Strategies for Adaptation, Personalization, and Evaluation

    Article • April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  5. Introduction to the Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Avatar in Metaverse

    Article • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    William PUECH, Stefano Cresci

  6. Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gianluca Nogara, Stefano Cresci

  7. The Great Ban: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of a Massive Deplatforming Operation on Reddit

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  8. Temporal dynamics of coordinated online behavior: Stability, archetypes, and influence

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Stefano Cresci

  9. Integrity 2024: Integrity in Social Networks and Media

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci, Symeon Papadopoulos

  10. One of Many: Assessing User-level Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  11. Make Reddit Great Again: Assessing Community Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  12. Personalized Interventions for Online Moderation

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  13. The Spread of Propaganda by Coordinated Communities on Social Media

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  14. Bots in Social and Interaction Networks

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, January 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  15. A longitudinal review of techniques for detecting bots on social media

    Article • Communications of the ACM, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  16. Better Safe Than Sorry

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  17. RTbust

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  18. Extremist Propaganda Tweet Classification with Deep Learning in Realistic Scenarios

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  19. Cashtag Piggybacking

    Article • ACM Transactions on the Web, May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci

  20. From Reaction to Proaction

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Cresci