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Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research
Stefano Cresci, Kai-Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi +3
Research on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation. Yet, social bot research is plagued by widespre…
The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi +2
Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time,…
DNA-inspired online behavioral modeling and its application to spambot detection
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi +2
We propose a strikingly novel, simple, and effective approach to model online user behavior: we extract and analyze digital DNA sequences from user online actions and we use Twitte…
Fame for sale: efficient detection of fake Twitter followers
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi +2
are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platfo…