Online misinformation about climate change

KMI Treen, HTP Williams… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

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] 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 …

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 …

[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 …

Detecting spammers on social networks

G Stringhini, C Kruegel, G Vigna - … of the 26th annual computer security …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Social networking has become a popular way for users to meet and interact online. Users
spend a significant amount of time on popular social network platforms (such as Facebook …

Uncovering social spammers: social honeypots+ machine learning

K Lee, J Caverlee, S Webb - Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Web-based social systems enable new community-based opportunities for participants to
engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services like search and …

Seven months with the devils: A long-term study of content polluters on twitter

K Lee, B Eoff, J Caverlee - … of the international AAAI conference on web …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
The rise in popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook has been
paralleled by the rise of unwanted, disruptive entities on these networks-—including …

Detecting and characterizing social spam campaigns

H Gao, J Hu, C Wilson, Z Li, Y Chen… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for
millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective …

Graph convolutional networks with markov random field reasoning for social spammer detection

Y Wu, D Lian, Y Xu, L Wu, E Chen - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
The recent growth of social networking platforms also led to the emergence of social
spammers, who overwhelm legitimate users with unwanted content. The existing social …