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@SMASH_Edin

Social Media Analysis & Support for Humanity (SMASH) group @InfAtEd

Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Mart 2019
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Youssef Al Hariri|يوسف الحريري
Thrilled to share our new paper: “Beyond the Game: Comparing Political News Coverage and Twitter Discussions during the 2022 FIFA World Cup”, now published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media! With the 2026 Men’s World Cup just weeks away, it’s the perfect time to revisit the highly politicised Qatar 2022 tournament. 1/10
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SMASH Edinburgh@SMASH_Edin·
We are thrilled to see @icwsm coming to Edinburgh 😍 Our directors @Walid_Magdy and @bjoernross will act as the general chairs. Please spread the word. We look forward to meeting you in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ICWSM2027
ICWSM@icwsm

🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰 ❗How submissions work: • May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26 • Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27 • Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)

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SMASH Edinburgh@SMASH_Edin·
Congratulations to two of our PhD graduates, Dr. Eddie and Dr. Mohamed, for their graduation ceremony. Also congrats to the supervisors, @bjoernross & @Walid_Magdy! Great to see more SMASH PhD graduates 😊
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Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯
Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas·
X now shows the number of username changes Accounts change names identity/purpose overnight for malicious goals. We studied misleading repurposing before, found 100k repurposed accs Interestingly X only now account for this vulnerability yet it still doesn't show the old names
Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas

One of the many problems of Twitter is scientifically documented🙃Our paper "Misleading Repurposing on Twitter" was accepted to @ICWSM We uncover, analyze and provide a detection method for the repurposing of accounts, some later became trolls. We detected 106k of such accounts!

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Mahmoud Fawzi
Mahmoud Fawzi@mhmudfwzi·
Hello from Norway! 👋🐋 Looking forward to seeing friends at #CSCW My paper presentation: "The prophet said!" (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…) will be on Tuesday at 16:30 in Peer Gynt-salen. See you there!
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Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas·
What is the impact of censorship (withholding accounts in certain countries) on X? In our new #CIKM25 paper, we find that censored (but not suspended) accounts lose 25% engagements on their subsequent tweets and experience a 90% drop in follower growth @cikm2025
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Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas·
How to tell if a trending slogan is a coordinated campaign? We present a new campaign dataset & detection method in Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns and Organic Twitter Trends @ICWSM & Density-aware Walks for Coordinated Campaign Detection @ECMLPKDD
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Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas·
At @ICWSM I’m running my mini-conference with three papers & posters ! Come check out the posters about cross-partisan interactions, coordinated replies & campaigns and beautiful GNNs! #ICWSM
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Tuğrulcan Elmas 🇹 🇯@tugrulcanelmas·
Is social media still a political echo chamber? In our new ICWSM25 paper "Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter" we analyzed 3M replies from 2020 and find that 34% were directed to users from opposite political alignment. However these interactions are more likely to be toxic🧵
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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy·
Two papers accepted to @aclmeeting about underserved languages by my PhD students @Amrkeleg (on Arabic dialects in NLP) and Zahra Bokaei (on Hate-speech detection in Persian). I hope they'd obtain their visas on time to present their diverse work in Vienna #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP
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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy·
If you are in @acm_chi and interested to see a study on a sensitive topic, such as the Palestine/Israel conflict, please join my presentation this afternoon on our paper with @jonintweet & @Hamdy_Mubarak. Details: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/progr… #CHI2025
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy

In 2021, @facebook deleted my post about Palestine In 2025, I'll present our paper: "Who Should Set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict" at @acm_chi Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02175 #CHI2025 #Censorship #FreeSpeech

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SMASH Edinburgh@SMASH_Edin·
We've 4 papers @icwsm - Experiences of Censorship on TikTok Across Marginalised Identities
- Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter - Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations - Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns @bjoernross @tugrulcanelmas
ICWSM@icwsm

🔥 The list of accepted papers (full, poster, and dataset) for #ICWSM25 is now live! Check it out: #accepted" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">icwsm.org/2025/schedule/… 🎟️ Want to attend the talks and connect with the authors? Registration is now open! Don’t miss the early bird rate — deadline is May 9th!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy·
In 2021, @facebook deleted my post about Palestine In 2025, I'll present our paper: "Who Should Set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict" at @acm_chi Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02175 #CHI2025 #Censorship #FreeSpeech
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy

I became one of the victims of @Facebook, where they deleted one of my posts that #SupportPalestine & restricted my account! It seems so many people are down rating it, since the rating of @facebookapp dropped to 2.5 in less than 15hrs! #FreedomofExpression #FreedomOfSpeech

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