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Savvas Zannettou

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

56

Venues

9

Active years

2016–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

56 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIGold Standard or Gold-Plated? Human Practices of Triple Verification in CSAM Takedown.Melissa Rottier, Michel van Eeten, Savvas Zannettou
2026WWWThe Algorithmic Self-Portrait: Deconstructing Memory in ChatGPT.Abhisek Dash, Soumi Das, Elisabeth Kirsten, Qinyuan Wu, Sai Keerthana Karnam, Krishna P. Gummadi, Thorsten Holz, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Savvas Zannettou
2026WWWBowling with ChatGPT: On the Evolving User Interactions with Conversational AI Systems.Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Krishna P. Gummadi, Animesh Mukherjee, Ingmar Weber, Savvas Zannettou
2026WWWDoes Ad-Free Mean Less Data Collection? An Empirical Study of Platform Data Practices and User Expectations.Sepehr Mousavi, Abhisek Dash, Savvas Zannettou, Krishna P. Gummadi
2026SPSetting the Course, but Forgetting to Steer: Analyzing Compliance with GDPR's Right of Access to Data by Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube.Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Antariksh Das, Sepehr Mousavi, Stefan Bechtold, Krishna P. Gummadi, Animesh Mukherjee, Ingmar Weber, Savvas Zannettou
2025CCSUnsafeBench: Benchmarking Image Safety Classifiers on Real-World and AI-Generated Images.Yiting Qu, Xinyue Shen, Yixin Wu, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2025EMNLPBreaking Agents: Compromising Autonomous LLM Agents Through Malfunction Amplification.Boyang Zhang, Yicong Tan, Yun Shen, Ahmed Salem, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2025ICCVHate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions.Yiting Qu, Ziqing Yang, Yihan Ma, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2025ICWSMClipMind: A Framework for Auditing Short-Format Video Recommendations Using Multimodal AI Models.Aoyu Gong, Sepehr Mousavi, Yiting Xia, Savvas Zannettou
2025ICWSMFrom Fake News to Real Protests: WhatsApp's Role in Brazilian Political Coordination.Daniel Kansaon, Philipe de Freitas Melo, Savvas Zannettou, Fabrcio Benevenuto
2024CHIAnalyzing User Engagement with TikTok's Short Format Video Recommendations using Data Donations.Savvas Zannettou, Olivia Nemes Nemeth, Oshrat Ayalon, Angelica Goetzen, Krishna P. Gummadi, Elissa M. Redmiles, Franziska Roesner
2024ICWSMFrom Isolation to Desolation: Investigating Self-Harm Discussions in Incel Communities.Moonis Ali, Savvas Zannettou
2024ICWSMCharacterizing Information Propagation in Fringe Communities on Telegram.Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe de Freitas Melo, Fabrcio Benevenuto, Anja Feldmann, Savvas Zannettou
2024ICWSMStrategies and Attacks of Digital Militias in WhatsApp Political Groups.Daniel Kansaon, Philipe de Freitas Melo, Savvas Zannettou, Anja Feldmann, Fabrcio Benevenuto
2024ICWSMDon't Break the Chain: Measuring Message Forwarding on WhatsApp.Philipe de Freitas Melo, Mohamad Hoseini, Savvas Zannettou, Fabrcio Benevenuto
2024ICWSMReviewing War: Unconventional User Reviews as a Side Channel to Circumvent Information Controls.Jos Miguel Moreno, Sergio Pastrana, Jens Helge Reelfs, Pelayo Vallina, Savvas Zannettou, Andriy Panchenko, Georgios Smaragdakis, Oliver Hohlfeld, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Tapiador
2024ICWSMAuditing Algorithmic Explanations of Social Media Feeds: A Case Study of TikTok Video Explanations.Sepehr Mousavi, Krishna P. Gummadi, Savvas Zannettou
2024WWWWhat News Do People Get on Social Media? Analyzing Exposure and Consumption of News through Data Donations.Salim Chouaki, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Oana Goga, Savvas Zannettou
2024WWWTikTok and the Art of Personalization: Investigating Exploration and Exploitation on Social Media Feeds.Karan Vombatkere, Sepehr Mousavi, Savvas Zannettou, Franziska Roesner, Krishna P. Gummadi
2024SPYou Only Prompt Once: On the Capabilities of Prompt Learning on Large Language Models to Tackle Toxic Content.Xinlei He, Savvas Zannettou, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
2023CCSUnsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models.Yiting Qu, Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2023ICWSMNon-polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit.Alexandros Efstratiou, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
2023ICWSMUnderstanding and Detecting Hateful Content Using Contrastive Learning.Felipe Gonzlez-Pizarro, Savvas Zannettou
2023ICWSM"Learn the Facts about COVID-19": Analyzing the Use of Warning Labels on TikTok Videos.Chen Ling, Krishna P. Gummadi, Savvas Zannettou
2023SPLambretta: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation.Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
2023SPOn the Evolution of (Hateful) Memes by Means of Multimodal Contrastive Learning.Yiting Qu, Xinlei He, Shannon Pierson, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang, Savvas Zannettou
2022CCSWhy So Toxic?: Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots.Wai Man Si, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2022ICWSMAnalyzing Antisemitism and Islamophobia using a Lexicon-based Approach.Moonis Ali, Savvas Zannettou
2022ICWSMFeels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge.Catherine Jennifer, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
2022ICWSM"It Is Just a Flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations.Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos
2022ICWSMThe Gospel according to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information.Antonis Papasavva, Max Aliapoulios, Cameron Ballard, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn
2022ICWSMA Longitudinal Study of the Gettr Social Network.Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
2022ICWSMCan online attention signals help fact-checkers to fact-check?Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Savvas Zannettou, Oana Goga, Fabrcio Benevenuto, Robert West
2022ICWSMOn Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online.Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
2022SPTrollMagnifier: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit.Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
2021ICWSMA Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network.Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou
2021ICWSMThe Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web.Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Summer Long, Stephanie Greenberg, Savvas Zannettou
2021ICWSMUnderstanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media.Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, David Magerman, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
2021ICWSM"I Won the Election!": An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter.Savvas Zannettou
2021WWW"Is it a Qoincidence?": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat.Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
2021WWW"Go eat a bat, Chang!": On the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19.Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Leonard Schild, Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Yang Zhang, Savvas Zannettou
2020IMCDemystifying the Messaging Platforms' Ecosystem Through the Lens of Twitter.Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Manoel Junior, Fabrcio Benevenuto, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, Savvas Zannettou
2020ICWSMThe Pushshift Reddit Dataset.Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Brian Keegan, Megan Squire, Jeremy Blackburn
2020ICWSMThe Pushshift Telegram Dataset.Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Megan Squire, Jeremy Blackburn
2020ICWSM"And We Will Fight for Our Race!" A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan.Alexandros Mittos, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro
2020ICWSMDisturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Inappropriate Videos Targeting Young Children.Kostantinos Papadamou, Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos
2020ICWSMRaiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board.Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
2020ICWSMCharacterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter.Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
2020ICWSMA Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism.Savvas Zannettou, Joel Finkelstein, Barry Bradlyn, Jeremy Blackburn
2019WWWDisinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web.Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
2018IMCOn the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities.Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
2018ICWSMUnderstanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media.Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini
2018WWWWhat is Gab: A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber.Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Haewoon Kwak, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
2018SPThe Good, the Bad and the Bait: Detecting and Characterizing Clickbait on YouTube.Savvas Zannettou, Sotirios Chatzis, Kostantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos
2017IMCThe web centipede: understanding how web communities influence each other through the lens of mainstream and alternative news sources.Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
2016ISCCExploiting path diversity in datacenters using MPTCP-aware SDN.Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos