Our Work
Selected Publications
"God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026
State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'25) · 2025
Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025
Media Coverage
Deleted Facebook posts on Gaza conflict broke no rules
Walid Magdy, Hamdy Mubarak, and Joni Salminen. 2025. Who Should Set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Read the paper
Coverage:
AI image generators misrepresent trans and non-binary people
Eddie Ungless, Björn Ross, and Anne Lauscher. 2023. Stereotypes and Smut: The (Mis)representation of Non-cisgender Identities by Text-to-Image Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. Read the paper
Coverage:
Bots have less influence than celebrities
Abeer Aldayel and Walid Magdy. 2022. Characterizing the role of bots' in polarized stance on social media. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1). Read the paper
Coverage:
- Study: Bots on Twitter have less influence than celebrities
- Edinburgh researchers say celebrities and influencers 'more dangerous' than bots
- Bots less of a bother on social media than celebs, study finds
- Promis verbreiten Desinformation besser als Bots ("Celebrities spread misinformation better than bots")
- Studie zu Social Media: Wird der Einfluss von Bots überbewertet? ("Social Media Study: Is the Influence of Bots Overstated?")