A new direction in social network analysis: Online social network analysis problems and applications

U Can, B Alatas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Online social networks: threats and solutions

M Fire, R Goldschmidt, Y Elovici - … Communications Surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many online social network (OSN) users are unaware of the numerous security risks that
exist in these networks, including privacy violations, identity theft, and sexual harassment …

A survey of Twitter research: Data model, graph structure, sentiment analysis and attacks

D Antonakaki, P Fragopoulou, S Ioannidis - Expert systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Aiding the detection of fake accounts in large scale social online services

Q Cao, M Sirivianos, X Yang, T Pregueiro - 9th USENIX symposium on …, 2012 - usenix.org
Users increasingly rely on the trustworthiness of the information exposed on Online Social
Networks (OSNs). In addition, OSN providers base their business models on the …

Fakedetector: Effective fake news detection with deep diffusive neural network

J Zhang, B Dong, SY Philip - 2020 IEEE 36th international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, due to the booming development of online social networks, fake news for
various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and …

Design and evaluation of a real-time url spam filtering service

K Thomas, C Grier, J Ma, V Paxson… - 2011 IEEE symposium …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On the heels of the widespread adoption of web services such as social networks and URL
shorteners, scams, phishing, and malware have become regular threats. Despite extensive …

Automating fake news detection system using multi-level voting model

S Kaur, P Kumar, P Kumaraguru - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
The issues of online fake news have attained an increasing eminence in the diffusion of
sha** news stories online. Misleading or unreliable information in the form of videos …

Suspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam

K Thomas, C Grier, D Song, V Paxson - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this study, we examine the abuse of online social networks at the hands of spammers
through the lens of the tools, techniques, and support infrastructure they rely upon. To …

A survey of sentiment analysis from social media data

K Chakraborty, S Bhattacharyya… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the current era of automation, machines are constantly being channelized to provide
accurate interpretations of what people express on social media. The human race nowadays …

Empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving twitter spammers

C Yang, R Harkreader, G Gu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To date, as one of the most popular online social networks (OSNs), Twitter is paying its dues
as more and more spammers set their sights on this microblogging site. Twitter spammers …