The many shades of anonymity: Characterizing anonymous social media content

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 71-80

  Denzil, Correa ^a   Leandro, Araújo Silva ^b   Mainack, Mondal ^a   Fabrício, Benevenuto ^b   Krishna, P Gummadi ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

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