Tuğrulcan Elmas

Lecturer

University of Edinburgh

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Interests

social media manipulation, NLP, computational social science

Publications

• An Optimistic Outlook on Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Coding With the Emergence of Generative AI

  Steven Watterson, Laila Dabab Nahas, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Hebatallah Shoukry, Ozan Evkaya

  Teaching Programming Across Disciplines · 2026

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• Evaluating Image Forgery Detection and Propaganda in Manipulated Images of the Russian Trolls Campaign

  Basem Mohammed, Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Tuğrulcan Elmas

  IEEE Internet Computing · 2026

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• Gendered Communication Patterns of Political Elites on Truth Social

  Tom Bidewell, Artemis Deligianni, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Clare Llewellyn, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 · 2026

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• Grievance Politics vs. Policy Debates: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Conservative Discourse on Truth Social and Reddit

  Yining Wang, Alhasan Abdellatif, Artemis Deligianni, Hannah Hok, Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Tuğrulcan Elmas

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026) · 2026

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• State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content

  Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Tuğrulcan Elmas

  Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'25) · 2025

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• Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter

  Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez Tangil, Jose Such, Tuğrulcan Elmas

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'25) · 2025

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• Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection

  Manita Pote, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025

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• Density-aware Walks for Coordinated Campaign Detection

  Atul Anand Gopalakrishnan, Jakir Hossain, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce

  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2025) · 2025

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• Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns and Organic Twitter Trends

  Atul Anand Gopalakrishnan, Jakir Hossain, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025

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• Shorts vs. Regular Videos on YouTube: A Comparative Analysis of User Engagement and Content Creation Trends

  Caroline Violot, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Igor Bilogrevic, Mathias Humbert

  Computer Science - Social and Information Networks

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• Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure

  Munjung Kim, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filippo Menczer

  International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2024) · 2024

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• The Impact of Data Persistence Bias on Social Media Studies

  Tuğrulcan Elmas

  Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 · 2023

  Computer Science - Computers and SocietyComputer Science - Social and Information Networks

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• Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends

  Tuğrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Overdorf, Ahmed Furkan Özkalay, Karl Aberer

  arXiv · 2021

  Computer Science - Cryptography and SecurityComputer Science - Social and Information Networks

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