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Detecting Pathogenic Social Media Accounts without Content or Network Structure
Elham Shaabani, Ruocheng Guo, Paulo Shakarian
The spread of harmful mis-information in social media is a pressing problem. We refer accounts that have the capability of spreading such information to viral proportions as "Patho…
An End-to-End Framework to Identify Pathogenic Social Media Accounts on Twitter
Elham Shaabani, Ashkan Sadeghi-Mobarakeh, Hamidreza Alvari +1
Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporter accounts and fake news writers have the capability of spreading disinformation to viral proportions. Early detect…
Less is More: Semi-Supervised Causal Inference for Detecting Pathogenic Users in Social Media
Hamidreza Alvari, Elham Shaabani, Soumajyoti Sarkar +2
Recent years have witnessed a surge of manipulation of public opinion and political events by malicious social media actors. These users are referred to as "Pathogenic Social Media…
Anomaly Detection for an E-commerce Pricing System
Jagdish Ramakrishnan, Elham Shaabani, Chao Li +1
Online retailers execute a very large number of price updates when compared to brick-and-mortar stores. Even a few mis-priced items can have a significant business impact and resul…
Early Identification of Pathogenic Social Media Accounts
Hamidreza Alvari, Elham Shaabani, Paulo Shakarian
Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporters exploit large communities of supporters for conducting attacks on social media. Early detection of these account…
MIST: Missing Person Intelligence Synthesis Toolkit
Elham Shaabani, Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian +1
Each day, approximately 500 missing persons cases occur that go unsolved/unresolved in the United States. The non-profit organization known as the Find Me Group (FMG), led by forme…