A troll is usually defined as somebody who provokes and offends people to make them
angry, who wants to dominate any discussion or who tries to manipulate people's opinions …

The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which
comes in many different forms, including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and …

Since the dawn of Humanity, the progress machine tirelessly introduced tools and resources
that facilitated our everyday tasks. Over the years, new technologies have continually …

Various techniques based on artificial intelligence have been proposed for the automatic
detection of online anti-social behaviors, both in existing systems and in the scientific …

There are different definitions of what a troll is. Certainly, a troll can be somebody who
teases people to make them angry, or somebody who offends people, or somebody who …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the dark side of news community forums: the
proliferation of opinion manipulation trolls. In particular, it explores the idea that a user who …

Textual deception constitutes a major problem for online security. Many studies have argued
that deceptiveness leaves traces in writing style, which could be detected using text …

Social cyber-security is an emergent field defining a multidisciplinary and
multimethodological approach to studying and preserving the free and open exchange of …

This article describes the current landscape in the fields of social media and socio-technical
systems. In particular, it analyzes the different ways in which social media are adopted in …

We investigate the political roles of" Internet trolls" in social media. Political trolls, such as the
ones linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), have recently gained enormous …