most citedPerils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms

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Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior

Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy +1

Recent research brought awareness of the issue of bots on social media and the significant risks of mass manipulation of public opinion in the context of political discussion. In t…

cs.SI201912 cited

Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms

Ashok Deb, Luca Luceri, Adam Badawy +1

One of the hallmarks of a free and fair society is the ability to conduct a peaceful and seamless transfer of power from one leader to another. Democratically, this is measured in…

cs.SI2018

'Senator, We Sell Ads': Analysis of the 2016 Russian Facebook Ads Campaign

Ritam Dutt, Ashok Deb, Emilio Ferrara

One of the key aspects of the United States democracy is free and fair elections that allow for a peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next. The 2016 US presidentia…

cs.SI2018

Discovering Signals from Web Sources to Predict Cyber Attacks

Palash Goyal, KSM Tozammel Hossain, Ashok Deb +5

Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and severity. Over the past year alone we have witnessed massive data breaches that stole personal information of millions of people and wide…

cs.SI2018

Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions

Ashok Deb, Anuja Majmundar, Sungyong Seo +5

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States hundreds of thousands initiate smoking each year, and millions live with smoking-related dis- eases…

cs.CL2018

Predicting Cyber Events by Leveraging Hacker Sentiment

Ashok Deb, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara

Recent high-profile cyber attacks exemplify why organizations need better cyber defenses. Cyber threats are hard to accurately predict because attackers usually try to mask their t…