SMASH Research Group

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

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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

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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

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Birthday wishes leak private information

Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Walid Magdy, and Kami Vaniea. 2022. From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter. arXiv:2201.10655 [cs], January. Read the paper

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Yellow emojis are not neutral

Robertson A., W. Magdy, S. Goldwater. Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji. ACM 2021. Read the paper

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Online signals that can reveal users' views

Aldayel A. and W. Magdy. Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media. CSCW 2019. Read the paper

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Emoji with skin tones are used positively on Twitter

Robertson A., W. Magdy, S. Goldwater. Self-Representation on Twitter Using Emoji Skin Color Modifiers. ICWSM 2018. Read the paper

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