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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…