Luca Luceri

Publications

• Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection in a Video-First Ecosystem

  Authors: L Luceri, TV Salkar, A Balasubramanian, G Pinto, C Sun, E Ferrara

  Year: 2026Journal: ICWSM'26 – 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

• Growth First, Care Second? Tracing the Landscape of LLM Value Preferences in Everyday Dilemmas

  Authors: Z Chen, EC Choi, Y Luo, X Wang, Y Xiao, A Yang, L Luceri

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.04456

• Harm in AI-driven societies: An audit of toxicity adoption on Chirper. ai

  Authors: E Coppolillo, L Luceri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01090

• How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models

  Authors: DC Ruiz, A Serbina, A Rao, E Ferrara, L Luceri

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22880

• Is Grokipedia right-leaning? Comparing political framing in Wikipedia and Grokipedia on controversial topics

  Authors: P Eibl, E Coppolillo, S Mungari, L Luceri

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15484

• Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity

  Authors: T Elmas, FN Silva, M Pote, P Dey, KC Chang, J Ye, L Luceri, C Buntain, ...

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10566

• Temporal signatures of coordination: detecting and anticipating influence operations on social media

  Authors: S Mungari, E Ferrara, L Luceri

  Year: 2026Journal: EPJ Data Science

• When Chatbots Accommodate: What AI Companions Optimize for in Vulnerable Conversations

  Authors: MD Chu, Y Wu, Z Chen, AHC Hwang, L Luceri

  Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.04431

• Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X Approaching the 2024 US Presidential Election

  Authors: J Ye, L Luceri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2025Journal: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and …

• Graph-Regularized Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Safety Steering

  Authors: J Yeon, F Cinus, Y Wu, L Luceri

  Year: 2025Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06655

• Large-scale detection of multilingual coordinated activity on Telegram

  Authors: L Blas, D Saraf, T Salkar, N Adadurova, L Luceri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2025Journal: npj Complexity 2 (1)

• Safe spaces or toxic places? Content moderation and social dynamics of online eating disorder communities

  Authors: K Lerman, MD Chu, C Bickham, L Luceri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2025Journal: EPJ Data Science 14 (1)

• Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X

  Authors: Z Chen*, J Ye*, B Tsai, E Ferrara, L Luceri

  Year: 2025Journal: [⭐Best Paper Honorable Mention] Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on …

• The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence

  Authors: L Luceri*, J Ye*, J Jiang, E Ferrara

  Year: 2025Journal: [⭐Best Paper Honorable Mention] Proceedings of the International AAAI …

• Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic

  Authors: G Nogara, F Pierri, S Cresci, L Luceri, P Törnberg, S Giordano

  Year: 2025Journal: ICWSM'25 – 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

• Tracking the 2024 US presidential election chatter on TikTok: A public multimodal dataset

  Authors: G Pinto, C Bickham, T Salkar, J Menezes, L Luceri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2025Journal: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

• An Exploration of Decentralized Moderation on Mastodon

  Authors: CA Bono, L La Cava, L Luceri, F Pierri

  Year: 2024Journal: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference

• Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Influence Campaigns on Social Media

  Authors: L Luceri, E Boniardi, E Ferrara

  Year: 2024Journal: In the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference 2024 🏆 Best Paper Award

• Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure

  Authors: J Ye, L Luceri, J Jiang, E Ferrara

  Year: 2024Journal: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24)

• Tracking fringe and coordinated activity on Twitter leading up to the US Capitol attack

  Authors: PS Vishnuprasad, G Nogara, F Cardoso, S Cresci, S Giordano, L Luceri

  Year: 2024Journal: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …

• Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter

  Authors: L Luceri, V Pantè, K Burghardt, E Ferrara

  Year: 2024Journal: The Web Conference 2024

• How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events

  Authors: F Pierri, L Luceri, E Chen, E Ferrara

  Year: 2023Journal: EPJ Data Science 12 (1)

• Identifying and Characterizing Behavioral Classes of Radicalization within the QAnon Conspiracy on Twitter

  Authors: EL Wang, L Luceri, F Pierri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2023Journal: ICWSM 2023

• Online networks of support in distressed environments: Solidarity and mobilization during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

  Authors: J Ye, N Jindal, F Pierri, L Luceri

  Year: 2023Journal: Workshop Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social …

• Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

  Authors: F Pierri, L Luceri, N Jindal, E Ferrara

  Year: 2023Journal: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023

• The Interconnected Nature of Online Harm and Moderation: Investigating the Cross-Platform Spread of Harmful Content between YouTube and Twitter

  Authors: V La Gatta, L Luceri, F Fabbri, E Ferrara

  Year: 2023Journal: ACM Hypertext 2023. Nominated for Ted Nelson Newcomer Award

• Artificial intelligence and cardiovascular risk prediction: all that glitters is not gold

  Authors: M Chiarito, L Luceri, A Oliva, G Stefanini, G Condorelli

  Year: 2022Journal: European Cardiology Review 17, e29

• The disinformation dozen: An exploratory analysis of covid-19 disinformation proliferation on twitter

  Authors: G Nogara, PS Vishnuprasad, F Cardoso, O Ayoub, S Giordano, L Luceri

  Year: 2022Journal: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022

• Down the bot hole: Actionable insights from a one-year analysis of bot activity on Twitter

  Authors: L Luceri, F Cardoso, S Giordano

  Year: 2021Journal: First Monday

• Detecting Troll Behavior via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study of Russian Trolls in the 2016 US Election

  Authors: L Luceri, S Giordano, E Ferrara

  Year: 2020Journal: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

• Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19

  Authors: E Ferrara, S Cresci, L Luceri

  Year: 2020Journal: Journal of Computational Social Science 3 (2)

• Analyzing and inferring human real-life behavior through online social networks with social influence deep learning

  Authors: L Luceri, T Braun, S Giordano

  Year: 2019Journal: Applied Network Science

• Evolution of bot and human behavior during elections

  Authors: L Luceri, A Deb, S Giordano, E Ferrara

  Year: 2019Journal: First Monday

• Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms

  Authors: A Deb, L Luceri, A Badawy, E Ferrara

  Year: 2019Journal: Companion of the The Web Conference 2019

• Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior

  Authors: L Luceri, A Deb, A Badawy, E Ferrara

  Year: 2019Journal: Companion of the The Web Conference 2019

• A collaborative approach to heading estimation for smartphone-based PDR indoor localisation

  Authors: MJ Abadi, L Luceri, M Hassan, CT Chou, M Nicoli

  Year: 2014Journal: 2014 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation …