A decade of social bot detection

S Cresci - Communications of the ACM, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A decade of social bot detection Page 1 72 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | OCTOBER
2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 10 review articles ON THE MORNING of November 9, 2016, the world …

A review on social spam detection: Challenges, open issues, and future directions

S Rao, AK Verma, T Bhatia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Online Social Networks are perpetually evolving and used in plenteous
applications such as content sharing, chatting, making friends/followers, customer …

[HTML][HTML] Bots and misinformation spread on social media: Implications for COVID-19

MK Himelein-Wachowiak, S Giorgi, A Devoto… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of
COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially …

Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

V Voukelatou, L Gabrielli, I Miliou, S Cresci… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

Weaponized health communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate

DA Broniatowski, AM Jamison… - … journal of public …, 2018 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content.
Methods. We compared bots' to average users' rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which …

Twibot-22: Towards graph-based twitter bot detection

S Feng, Z Tan, H Wan, N Wang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation,
facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. State-of …

A survey on deep learning for cybersecurity: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

M Macas, C Wu, W Fuertes - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
As the number of Internet-connected systems rises, cyber analysts find it increasingly difficult
to effectively monitor the produced volume of data, its velocity and diversity. Signature-based …

Botometer 101: Social bot practicum for computational social scientists

KC Yang, E Ferrara, F Menczer - Journal of computational social science, 2022 - Springer
Social bots have become an important component of online social media. Deceptive bots, in
particular, can manipulate online discussions of important issues ranging from elections to …

Detection of novel social bots by ensembles of specialized classifiers

M Sayyadiharikandeh, O Varol, KC Yang… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in part by algorithms,
known as social bots, to disseminate misinformation and agitate online discussion. While …

Auditing Elon Musk's impact on hate speech and bots

D Hickey, M Schmitz, D Fessler, PE Smaldino… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and
firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content …