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Overview

Christo Wilson is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and computer science, with significant contributions in sociology, political science, artificial intelligence, communication, statistical and nonlinear physics, and information systems.

The main topics addressed in their work include misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, social media and politics, terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, ethics and social impacts of AI, media influence and politics, and complex network analysis techniques.

Wilson's notable recent papers encompass diverse issues related to misinformation, algorithmic auditing, and digital behavior:

  • "Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power" (2020), published in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • "A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns Across Web and Mobile Modalities" (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Auditing Algorithms: Understanding Algorithmic Systems from the Outside In" (2021), published in Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction
  • "From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online" (2021), published in Media and Communication

Wilson collaborates frequently with a core group of scholars, including Ronald E. Robertson, David Lazer, J. M. Gleason, Annie Y. Chen, and Brendan Nyhan.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in specialized publication venues such as the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Harvard Dataverse, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • User interactions in social networks and their implications

    Christo Wilson;Bryce Boe;Alessandra Sala;Krishna P.N. Puttaswamy

  • Detecting and characterizing social spam campaigns

    Hongyu Gao;Jun Hu;Christo Wilson;Zhichun Li

  • Better never than late: meeting deadlines in datacenter networks

    Christo Wilson;Hitesh Ballani;Thomas Karagiannis;Ant Rowtron

  • Measuring personalization of web search

    Aniko Hannak;Piotr Sapiezynski;Arash Molavi Kakhki;Balachander Krishnamurthy

  • Uncovering social network Sybils in the wild

    Zhi Yang;Christo Wilson;Xiao Wang;Tingting Gao

  • Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites

    Aniko Hannak;Gary Soeller;David Lazer;Alan Mislove

  • Understanding latent interactions in online social networks

    Jing Jiang;Christo Wilson;Xiao Wang;Wenpeng Sha

  • Bias in Online Freelance Marketplaces: Evidence from TaskRabbit and Fiverr

    Anikó Hannák;Claudia Wagner;David Garcia;Alan Mislove

  • Understanding latent interactions in online social networks

    Jing Jiang;Christo Wilson;Xiao Wang;Peng Huang

  • You are how you click: clickstream analysis for Sybil detection

    Gang Wang;Tristan Konolige;Christo Wilson;Xiao Wang

  • An Empirical Analysis of Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon Marketplace

    Le Chen;Alan Mislove;Christo Wilson

  • Sharing graphs using differentially private graph models

    Alessandra Sala;Xiaohan Zhao;Christo Wilson;Haitao Zheng

  • Serf and turf: crowdturfing for fun and profit

    Gang Wang;Christo Wilson;Xiaohan Zhao;Yibo Zhu

  • Do social networks improve e-commerce?: a study on social marketplaces

    Gayatri Swamynathan;Christo Wilson;Bryce Boe;Kevin Almeroth

  • Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection

    Gang Wang;Manish Mohanlal;Christo Wilson;Xiao Wang

  • Measurement-calibrated graph models for social network experiments

    Alessandra Sala;Lili Cao;Christo Wilson;Robert Zablit

  • Beyond Social Graphs: User Interactions in Online Social Networks and their Implications

    Christo Wilson;Alessandra Sala;Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy;Ben Y. Zhao

  • Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power

    Katherine Ognyanova;David Lazer;Ronald E. Robertson;Christo Wilson

  • Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search

    Ronald E. Robertson;Shan Jiang;Kenneth Joseph;Lisa Friedland

  • An End-to-End Measurement of Certificate Revocation in the Web's PKI

    Yabing Liu;Will Tome;Liang Zhang;David Choffnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Y. Zhao
Ben Y. Zhao University of Chicago
Alan Mislove
Alan Mislove Northeastern University
David Choffnes
David Choffnes Northeastern University
Haitao Zheng
Haitao Zheng University of Chicago
Zhenhua Li
Zhenhua Li University of Science and Technology Beijing
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
William Robertson
William Robertson Northeastern University
Bruce M. Maggs
Bruce M. Maggs Duke University
Engin Kirda
Engin Kirda Northeastern University
Miriam J. Metzger
Miriam J. Metzger University of California, Santa Barbara

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