Abstract Online Social Networks are perpetually evolving and used in plenteous
applications such as content sharing, chatting, making friends/followers, customer …

In recent times, fake news and misinformation have had a disruptive and adverse impact on
our lives. Given the prominence of microblogging networks as a source of news for most …

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 …

Social media have been growing rapidly and become essential elements of many people's
lives. Meanwhile, social media have also come to be a popular source for identity deception …

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 …

Twitter spam has long been a critical but difficult problem to be addressed. So far,
researchers have proposed many detection and defence methods in order to protect Twitter …

Social network has become a very popular way for internet users to communicate and
interact online. Users spend plenty of time on famous social networks (eg, Facebook, Twitter …

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging services, which is generally used to share
news and updates through short messages restricted to 280 characters. However, its open …

The availability of microblogging, like Twitter and Sina Weibo, makes it a popular platform for
spammers to unfairly overpower normal users with unwanted content via social networks …

The increasing popularity of social media encourages more and more users to participate in
various online activities and produces data in an unprecedented rate. Social media data is …