Publications, Public Speaking, and Media Mentions
Peer Reviewed Academic Work
Measuring Centralization of Online Platforms Through Size and Interconnection of Communities
Open Source Networks and Media, 2024
Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James Bagrow
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative
EPJ Data Science, 2022
Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James P. Bagrow
Distinguishing In-Groups and Onlookers by Language Use
12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA), 2022
Milo Z. Trujillo, Joshua R. Minot, Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Guillermo de Anda Jáuregui, Emily Moog, Briane Paul V. Samson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Allison M. Roth
Characterizing YouTube and BitChute Content and Mobilizers During U.S. Election Fraud Discussions on Twitter
The 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), 2022
Matthew C. Childs, Cody Buntain, Milo Z. Trujillo, Benjamin D. Horne
The MeLa BitChute Dataset
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022
Milo Z. Trujillo, Mauricio Gruppi, Cody Buntain, Benjamin D. Horne
The Secret of BlueLeaks: Security, Police, and the Continuum of Pacification
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021
Brendan McQuade, Lorax B. Horne, Zach Wehrwein, Milo Z. Trujillo
When the Echo Chamber Shatters: Examining the Use of Community-Specific Language Post-Subreddit Ban
Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 2021
Milo Z. Trujillo, Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Guillermo de Anda Jáuregui, Emily Moog, Briane Paul V. Samson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Allison M. Roth
Which Contributions Count? Analysis of Attribution in Open Source
Mining Software Repositories Conference (MSR), 2021
Jean-Gabriel Young, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James P. Bagrow
Open Source Ecosystems Need Equitable Credit Across Contributions
Nature Computational Science, 2021
Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo, Jean-Gabriel Young, James P. Bagrow, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
What is BitChute? Characterizing the “Free Speech” Alternative to YouTube
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) 2020
Milo Trujillo, Mauricio Gruppi, Cody Buntain, and Benjamin D. Horne
Hateful YouTube: Characterizing the Social Video-hosting Platform BitChute
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2020
Milo Trujillo, Mauricio Gruppi, Cody Buntain, and Benjamin D. Horne
Non-Peer Reviewed
Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning
ArXiv Preprint, 2024
Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer, Alejandro J. Ruiz, Calla Beautrgard, Ashley Fehr, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, Bradford Demarest, Yoshi Meke Bird, Milo Z. Trujillo, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
Building a kinder super highway: Online group behavior driven by platform design and social policy
University of Vermont (Doctoral Dissertation) 2024
Milo Z. Trujillo, Advisors: James Bagrow, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Invisible Labor in Open Source Software Ecosystems
ArXiv Preprint, 2024
John Meluso, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo
A Blind Spot for Large Language Models: Supradiegetic Linguistic Information
Plutonics, 2024
Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer, Jonathan St. Onge, Mikaela Fudolig, Milo Z. Trujillo, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
Hosting Under Duress
2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Volume Thirty-Seven, Number Four (Winter 2020 Issue)
Milo Trujillo
Information Contagion in Temporal Human Networks with Heterogeneous Susceptibility
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS Thesis) 2020
Milo Trujillo, Advisors: Sibel Adali, Jianxi Gao
Activism Under Oppression: How Internet-Age Social Movements Organize to Resist Structural Attacks, Internal Schisms, and Disinformation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS Thesis) 2018
Milo Trujillo, Advisor: Ron Eglash
Optimizing Social Hierarchy
Santa Fe Institute (Internal Workshop) 2017
Milo Trujillo, Justin Grana, Brendan Tracey, David Wolpert
Lectures and Public Speaking
Building a kinder super highway: Online group behavior driven by platform design and social policy
Dissertation defense at the University of Vermont, July 2024
Presented my research on online community behavior, including four case-studies: how open-source software development is shaped by the functionality GitHub provides, how communities on Reddit responded to content policy changes and the ban of 2000 subreddits, how we measure inter-group influence and platform centralization around its largest communities, and research on following inter-platform group migration using group linguistic fingerprints.
Hateful YouTube: Characterizing the Social Video-Hosting Platform BitChute
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July 2020
Presented research announced at IC2S2 and published at ACM-Hypertext categorizing the alternative social media platform BitChute, which serves as a haven for deplatformed and demonetized accounts from more mainstream platforms. This project involved mass data collection with custom scrapers, language analysis (especially LDA topic analysis), network analysis, and broad platform and behavioral categorization.
Optimizing Social Hierarchy
Santa Fe Institute, August 2017
Presented on research conducted with David Wolpert and Justin Grana while I was in the REU program. We developed a model for defining and measuring the success of communications hierarchies, and combined that model with machine learning to design optimal social structures for a variety of scenarios.
Mentions in Media
Following Trump’s YouTube ban, it is feared his supporters are migrating to a ‘Wild West’ of video-sharing, mingling with far-right and neo-Nazis terror groups
Business Insider, Joshua Zitser, January 2021
Outlines the exodus of far-right users from mainstream platforms to alt-tech sites like Parler and BitChute. Includes an interview with my co-author on BitChute research, Ben Horne. Focuses on the content and lack of moderation on BitChute and similar websites.
BitChute welcomes the dangerous hate speech that YouTube bans
Mashable, Matt Binder, December 2020
Discusses my research with Ben Horne, Mauricio Gruppi, and Cody Buntain on alt-tech platform BitChute, characterizing both the activity on the platform and its integration with the broader alt-tech and mainstream social media ecosystems.
Global Offshore Corporate Networks Exposed in Massive Data Leak
Unicorn Riot, Dan Feidt, December 2019
Coverage of the “#29Leaks” release, where DDoSecrets published documents revealing Formations House’s activities creating shell companies for the ultra-wealthy to obscure financial transactions. I worked for both the Pursuance Project and DDoSecrets on #29Leaks to create and administer infrastructure for analyzing and disseminating the leaked documents.