With the advent of smart homes, smart cities, and smart everything, the Internet of Things
(IoT) has emerged as an area of incredible impact, potential, and growth, with Cisco Inc …

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 …

Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated
by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect …

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but
disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to …

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 …

The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on
social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and …

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 …

Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of
the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time …

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 …

Artificial intelligence (AI) research and regulation seek to balance the benefits of innovation
against any potential harms and disruption. However, one unintended consequence of the …