About this episode
In this episode we talk with Manita Pote, a PhD student at Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in online trust and safety, with a focus on detecting coordinated manipulation campaigns on social media.
Key insights include how coordinated reply attacks target influential figures like journalists and politicians, how machine learning models can detect these inauthentic campaigns using structural and behavioral features, and how deletion patterns reveal efforts to evade moderation or manipulate engagement metrics.
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Papers in focus
Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection ,2025
Manipulating Twitter through Deletions,2022
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