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 …

Evolutionary network analysis has found an increasing interest in the literature because of
the importance of different kinds of dynamic social networks, email networks, biological …

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 topic of fake news has drawn attention both from the public and the academic
communities. Such misinformation has the potential of affecting public opinion, providing an …

False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media
platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information …

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 …

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 …

Given a bipartite graph of users and the products that they review, or followers and
followees, how can we detect fake reviews or follows? Existing fraud detection methods …

The spread of malicious or accidental misinformation in social media, especially in time-
sensitive situations, such as real-world emergencies, can have harmful effects on individuals …

The success of online social networks has attracted a constant interest in attacking and
exploiting them. Attackers usually control malicious accounts, including both fake and …