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Towards better social crisis data with HERMES: Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency ManagEment System
Marco Avvenuti, Salvatore Bellomo, Stefano Cresci +2
People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in online social networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of human sen…
The Limited Reach of Fake News on Twitter during 2019 European Elections
Matteo Cinelli, Stefano Cresci, Alessandro Galeazzi +2
The advent of social media changed the way we consume content favoring a disintermediated access and production. This scenario has been matter of critical discussion about its impa…
Better Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi +1
The arm race between spambots and spambot-detectors is made of several cycles (or generations): a new wave of spambots is created (and new spam is spread), new spambot filters are…
RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter
Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti +2
Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study re…