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From Manipulation to Mistrust: Explaining Diverse Micro-Video Misinformation for Robust Debunking in the Wild
Zhi Zeng, Yifei Yang, Jiaying Wu +5
The rise of micro-videos has reshaped how misinformation spreads, amplifying its speed, reach, and impact on public trust. Existing benchmarks typically focus on a single deception…
Forecasting the Buzz: Enriching Hashtag Popularity Prediction with LLM Reasoning
Yifei Xu, Jiaying Wu, Herun Wan +3
Hashtag trends ignite campaigns, shift public opinion, and steer millions of dollars in advertising spend, yet forecasting which tag goes viral is elusive. Classical regressors dig…
How Do Social Bots Participate in Misinformation Spread? A Comprehensive Dataset and Analysis
Herun Wan, Minnan Luo, Zihan Ma +2
Social media platforms provide an ideal environment to spread misinformation, where social bots can accelerate the spread. This paper explores the interplay between social bots and…
BotPercent: Estimating Bot Populations in Twitter Communities
Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Melanie Sclar +4
Twitter bot detection is vital in combating misinformation and safeguarding the integrity of social media discourse. While malicious bots are becoming more and more sophisticated a…
TwiBot-22: Towards Graph-Based Twitter Bot Detection
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Herun Wan +19
Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation, facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. St…
BotRGCN: Twitter Bot Detection with Relational Graph Convolutional Networks
Shangbin Feng, Herun Wan, Ningnan Wang +1
Twitter bot detection is an important and challenging task. Existing bot detection measures fail to address the challenge of community and disguise, falling short of detecting bots…
SATAR: A Self-supervised Approach to Twitter Account Representation Learning and its Application in Bot Detection
Shangbin Feng, Herun Wan, Ningnan Wang +2
Twitter has become a major social media platform since its launching in 2006, while complaints about bot accounts have increased recently. Although extensive research efforts have…
TwiBot-20: A Comprehensive Twitter Bot Detection Benchmark
Shangbin Feng, Herun Wan, Ningnan Wang +2
Twitter has become a vital social media platform while an ample amount of malicious Twitter bots exist and induce undesirable social effects. Successful Twitter bot detection propo…