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4 papers
Detection and Characterization of Coordinated Online Behavior: A Survey
Lorenzo Mannocci, Michele Mazza, Anna Monreale +2
Coordination is a fundamental aspect of life. The advent of social media has made it integral also to online human interactions, such as those that characterize thriving online com…
From Tweet to Theft: Tracing the Flow of Stolen Cryptocurrency
Guglielmo Cola, Michele Mazza, Maurizio Tesconi
This paper presents a case study of a cryptocurrency scam that utilized coordinated and inauthentic behavior on Twitter. In 2020, 143 accounts sold by an underground merchant were…
Modularity-based approach for tracking communities in dynamic social networks
Michele Mazza, Guglielmo Cola, Maurizio Tesconi
Community detection is a crucial task to unravel the intricate dynamics of online social networks. The emergence of these networks has dramatically increased the volume and speed o…
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…