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CristianCantoro

@cristiancantoro.bsky.social
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Scientific Project Officer - European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT). Ph.D. in CS (UniTN, Italy), Wikimedian, free-software activist and physicist PGP 2E63 EF06 BBE9 68B4 E887 AD10 F4B4 A141 4B2F 9555

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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Honored to have received the Best Web Agent award for our demo "Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards", check them out here: vitalsigns.wmcloud.org The paper is available in the proceedings here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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View of Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Humbled and honored to announce that this paper won the Best Paper Award at #RecSys2025. Check it out in the proceedings: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.
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You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control | Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Mapathon #OpenStreetMap Trento with #SpeckAndTech
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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 09/08/2025
🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...
Tortured phrases in the article https://pubpeer.com/publications/1497EA7D4D157F282F3910AB471A1B
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Check out our latest pre-print (to appear at RecSys 2025, @recsys.bsky.social)
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João Vinagre @jvinagre.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025
A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you! #DSA digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
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Commission adopts delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act
The delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act enables researchers to obtain unprecedented access to platforms’ internal data to contribute to a safer online world.
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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :) bsky.app/starter-pack... Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Honorable Mention for the Test of Time Award to "It's a man's Wikipedia? Assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia" by @clauwa.bsky.social et al. @icwsm.bsky.social
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/06/2025
A U.S. judge ruled that while Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is #fairuse, storing pirated copies isn't. It’s a mixed decision, bad for both sides, but a potential win for AI platforms overall. aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...
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Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works – ai fray
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🎤 Day 2 kicks off with Richard Rogers on algorithmic auditing
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🎤 Silvia Merisio from @ec.europa.eu on the DSA’s impact on Social Data Science and an insightful panel discussion with Oana Goga and Krishna Gummadi, moderated by @frapierri.bsky.social
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Tommy Löfstedt @tommylofstedt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.
Going to www.overleaf.com results in Error: Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hello, it's me, talking about getting data from PDFs again. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/w...
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Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Nothing to see here, just Mr. TC (I just looked up his name, it's Alec) laying out a beautiful piece about algorithms and how we interact with them.
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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3
synthwave style image with starry background, grid ground, a prism. It says "man I love archivists preserving the web"
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Probably an effect of "Publish or Perish" (source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/scie...)
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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 21/01/2025
Have you tried the Wikipedia app yet? The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)
Meet the Mobile Apps team. The Mobile Apps team works to improve the Wikipedia mobile apps, making them faster, easier, and more personalized to read and edit.
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We miss you every day, Aaron.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/01/2025
public outrage and actual enforceable regulation are the only 2 things big tech responds to
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Years ago, together with @hirokisayama.bsky.social and dozens of colleagues from the #ComplexSystems community we have built the complexityexplained.github.io website w/ interactive explorables. Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷
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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
GAME CHANGER? Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy " @Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA
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Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?” My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"In Kenya, it traumatised 100% of hundreds of former moderators tested for PTSD … In any other industry, if we discovered 100% of safety workers were being diagnosed with an illness caused by their work, the people responsible would be forced to resign..." www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
PSA: "Follow all" follows all the accounts of a list If you are: 1. a scientist working on recsys, NLP, complex systems, online platforms with a social/societal angle, etc. 2. you research about online abuse and harms 3. you are checking out who's that new follower you just got
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Curating and sharing high-quality datasets is the foundation of good empirical science. @icwsm.bsky.social promotes dataset creation through a dedicated conference track published in the conference's regular proceedings. Submit your dataset paper by Jan 15th! www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
One of the most important paper of the year, in a way the AI version of the famous essay "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2024
AI increasingly used for sextortion, scams and child abuse, says senior UK police chief
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AI increasingly used for sextortion, scams and child abuse, says senior UK police chief
The fast-developing technology is providing opportunities in ‘any crime type’ – and police must ‘move fast’ to catch up Paedophiles, scammers, hackers and criminals of all kinds are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) to target victims…
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CristianCantoro @cristiancantoro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Il garante privacy sanziona Glovo: l'algoritmo viola i diritti dei rider www.today.it/economia/per...
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Il Garante sanziona Glovo, stangata da 5 milioni di euro: l'algoritmo viola i diritti dei rider
La decisione - che Today.it è in grado di anticipare - riguarda ancora una volta il sistema automatizzato usato dalla piattaforma per gestire i lavoratori. L'istruttoria è stata avviata anche grazie a...
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💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet #HelpSmallArtists
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Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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