Savvas Zannettou

Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology researching cybersecurity and online platforms. Focuses on understanding how online communities form, evolve, and spread potentially harmful content; examines topics including misinformation, conspiracy theories, and radicalization across fringe and mainstream platforms.

Sources in this wiki

• The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
• On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
• Characterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter
• Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web
• Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
• The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information

Topics

• Conspiracy theories, Social media and misinformation, Platform moderation, Computational Propaganda