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 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 …

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 …

Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Adversarial attacks are carried out to reveal the vulnerability of deep neural networks.
Textual adversarial attacking is challenging because text is discrete and a small perturbation …

Aiming to enhance the safety of their users, social media platforms enforce terms of service
by performing active moderation, including removing content or suspending users …

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 …

Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of
followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and …

In recent years, bullying and aggression against social media users have grown
significantly, causing serious consequences to victims of all demographics. Nowadays …

Abstract The rise of Online Social Networks (OSNs) continues to surge in today's modern
era. Millions of users are attracted and joined various OSNs and use them to perform various …