Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L **ao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Social bot detection in the age of ChatGPT: Challenges and opportunities

E Ferrara - First Monday, 2023 - firstmonday.org
We present a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities in social bot
detection in the context of the rise of sophisticated AI-based chatbots. By examining the state …

[HTML][HTML] Fake news detection: A hybrid CNN-RNN based deep learning approach

JA Nasir, OS Khan, I Varlamis - International journal of information …, 2021 - Elsevier
The explosion of social media allowed individuals to spread information without cost, with
little investigation and fewer filters than before. This amplified the old problem of fake news …

Misinformation in social media: definition, manipulation, and detection

L Wu, F Morstatter, KM Carley, H Liu - ACM SIGKDD explorations …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The widespread dissemination of misinformation in social media has recently received a lot
of attention in academia. While the problem of misinformation in social media has been …

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 …

Rumor detection on twitter with tree-structured recursive neural networks

J Ma, W Gao, KF Wong - 2018 - ink.library.smu.edu.sg
Sentiment expression in microblog posts can be affected by user's personal character,
opinion bias, political stance and so on. Most of existing personalized microblog sentiment …

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

C Shao, GL Ciampaglia, O Varol, KC Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

Fake News on Social Media

PL Moravec, RK Minas, AR Dennis - MIS quarterly, 2019 - JSTOR
Fake news (ie, misinformation) on social media has sharply increased in the past few years.
We conducted a behavioral experiment with EEG data from 83 social media users to …

Detecting rumors from microblogs with recurrent neural networks

J Ma, W Gao, P Mitra, S Kwon, BJ Jansen, KF Wong… - 2016 - ink.library.smu.edu.sg
Microblogging platforms are an ideal place for spreading rumors and automatically
debunking rumors is a crucial problem. To detect rumors, existing approaches have relied …

Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election: The challenge of automated political communication for election law and administration

PN Howard, S Woolley, R Calo - Journal of information technology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Political communication is the process of putting information, technology, and media in the
service of power. Increasingly, political actors are automating such processes, through …