About Chinese propaganda on Twitter: drawing data 📊

Some days ago the journalist Charlotte Godart contacted me and asked me to explain how to use my script tweet_analysis.py. Her goal was to convert Twitter datasets about Chinese propaganda into graphs, so that people can see how the Chinese government operates on Twitter to influence their opinion. While helping her I had the possibility to take a look at these datasets and they are intriguing, very different from the Internet Research Agency dataset....

December 3, 2019 · 7 min · 1294 words · Luigi Gubello

Quali utenti usano 🇮🇹 nel nickname di Twitter?

Qualche giorno fa il giornalista de Il Post Emanuele Menietti ha tweetato questo: ci sarà pur un modo per filtrare tutti quelli con la bandierina dell'italia nel nome del profilo e con foto che non troveresti manco sulle credenze nei tinelli a predappio. — emanuele menietti (@emenietti) July 7, 2018 Mi sono quindi domandato se c’è un modo veloce per filtrare gli utenti di Twitter in base alla presenza, o meno, di una determinata emoji nel loro nickname....

July 19, 2018 · 5 min · 1005 words · Luigi Gubello

XSSSonar: python tool to look for XSS

In my own spare time I like to participate in the bug bounty programs. They are a hard challenge, but it is satisfying to find vulnerabilities in big companies. I usually look for XSS vulnerabilities, for this reason I have written a little python script to automate the search of XSS. XSSSonar is an open source tool to look for XSS vulnerabilities on a web page, it is written in Python 2....

December 16, 2017 · 1 min · 155 words · Luigi Gubello