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 …

Detection of bots in social media: a systematic review

M Orabi, D Mouheb, Z Al Aghbari, I Kamel - Information Processing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media bots (automated accounts) attacks are organized crimes that pose potential
threats to public opinion, democracy, public health, stock market and other disciplines. While …

Scalable and generalizable social bot detection through data selection

KC Yang, O Varol, PM Hui, F Menczer - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Efficient and reliable social bot classification is crucial for detecting information manipulation
on social media. Despite rapid development, state-of-the-art bot detection models still face …

Demystifying social bots: On the intelligence of automated social media actors

D Assenmacher, L Clever, L Frischlich… - Social Media+ …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, social bots,(semi-) automatized accounts in social media, gained global attention
in the context of public opinion manipulation. Dystopian scenarios like the malicious …

Network distribution and sentiment interaction: Information diffusion mechanisms between social bots and human users on social media

M Cai, H Luo, X Meng, Y Cui, W Wang - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
When public health emergencies occur, a large amount of low-credibility information is
widely disseminated by social bots, and public sentiment is easily manipulated by social …

Social bots' sentiment engagement in health emergencies: A topic-based analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic discussions on Twitter

W Shi, D Liu, J Yang, J Zhang, S Wen, J Su - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when individuals were confronted with social distancing,
social media served as a significant platform for expressing feelings and seeking emotional …

Are you a cyborg, bot or human?—a survey on detecting fake news spreaders

W Shahid, Y Li, D Staples, G Amin, S Hakak… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major components of Societal Digitalization is Online social networks (OSNs).
OSNs can expose people to different popular trends in various aspects of life and alter …

Algorithmic agents in the hybrid media system: Social bots, selective amplification, and partisan news about COVID-19

Z Duan, J Li, J Lukito, KC Yang, F Chen… - Human …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Social bots, or algorithmic agents that amplify certain viewpoints and interact with selected
actors on social media, may influence online discussion, news attention, or even public …

Social media bot detection with deep learning methods: a systematic review

K Hayawi, S Saha, MM Masud, SS Mathew… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
Social bots are automated social media accounts governed by software and controlled by
humans at the backend. Some bots have good purposes, such as automatically posting …