publications

2025

1. The Peripatetic Hater: Predicting Movement Among Hate Subreddits

   Daniel Hickey, Daniel MT Fessler, Kristina Lerman, and Keith Burghardt

   To appear in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2025

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2024

1. X Under Musk’s Leadership: Substantial Hate and No Reduction in Inauthentic Activity

   Daniel Hickey, Daniel Fessler, Kristina Lerman, and Keith Burghardt

   To appear in PLOS ONE, 2024

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   @article{hickey2024x,
     title = {X Under Musk's Leadership: Substantial Hate and No Reduction in Inauthentic Activity},
     author = {Hickey, Daniel and Fessler, Daniel and Lerman, Kristina and Burghardt, Keith},
     journal = {To appear in PLOS ONE},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. Do users adopt extremist beliefs from exposure to hate subreddits?

   Matheus Schmitz, Goran Muric, Daniel Hickey, and Keith Burghardt

   Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2024

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   @article{schmitz2024users,
     title = {Do users adopt extremist beliefs from exposure to hate subreddits?},
     author = {Schmitz, Matheus and Muric, Goran and Hickey, Daniel and Burghardt, Keith},
     journal = {Social Network Analysis and Mining},
     volume = {14},
     number = {1},
     pages = {22},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

2023

1. Auditing Elon Musk’s Impact on Hate Speech and Bots

   Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E Smaldino, Goran Muric, and Keith Burghardt

   In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

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   @inproceedings{hickey2023auditing,
     title = {Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots},
     author = {Hickey, Daniel and Schmitz, Matheus and Fessler, Daniel and Smaldino, Paul E and Muric, Goran and Burghardt, Keith},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
     volume = {17},
     pages = {1133--1137},
     year = {2023},
   }