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 …

The rise of social bots

E Ferrara, O Varol, C Davis, F Menczer… - Communications of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The rise of social bots Page 1 96 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JULY 2016 | VOL. 59 |
NO. 7 review articles ILL US TRA TION B Y ARN0 DOI:10.1145/2818717 Today’s social bots …

[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 …

The web of false information: Rumors, fake news, hoaxes, clickbait, and various other shenanigans

S Zannettou, M Sirivianos, J Blackburn… - Journal of Data and …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

KC Yang, O Varol, CA Davis, E Ferrara… - Human Behavior …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to
manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots—automated or semi …

[LIVRE][B] Digital sociology

D Lupton - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on
everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and …

Enquiring minds: Early detection of rumors in social media from enquiry posts

Z Zhao, P Resnick, Q Mei - … of the 24th international conference on world …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Many previous techniques identify trending topics in social media, even topics that are not
pre-defined. We present a technique to identify trending rumors, which we define as topics …

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 …

Automatic online fake news detection combining content and social signals

ML Della Vedova, E Tacchini, S Moret… - … 22nd conference of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation and rapid diffusion of fake news on the Internet highlight the need of
automatic hoax detection systems. In the context of social networks, machine learning (ML) …

Tweetcred: Real-time credibility assessment of content on twitter

A Gupta, P Kumaraguru, C Castillo, P Meier - Social Informatics: 6th …, 2014 - Springer
During sudden onset crisis events, the presence of spam, rumors and fake content on Twitter
reduces the value of information contained on its messages (or “tweets”). A possible solution …