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 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 …

In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative
sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list …

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 …

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 …

Amid widespread reports of digital influence operations during major elections,
policymakers, scholars, and journalists have become increasingly interested in the political …

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have received extensive attention recently. Massive data
has been stored on permission-less blockchains. The analysis of massive blockchain data …

Graph-based semi-supervised node classification (GraphSSC) has wide applications,
ranging from networking and security to data mining and machine learning, etc. However …