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Measuring social spam and the effect of bots on information diffusion in social media
Emilio Ferrara
Bots have been playing a crucial role in online platform ecosystems, as efficient and automatic tools to generate content and diffuse information to the social media human populati…
Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election
Emilio Ferrara
Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous conclusion: social media are systematically exploited to manipulate and alter p…
Dynamics of Content Quality in Collaborative Knowledge Production
Emilio Ferrara, Nazanin Alipourfard, Keith Burghardt +2
We explore the dynamics of user performance in collaborative knowledge production by studying the quality of answers to questions posted on Stack Exchange. We propose four indicato…
Graph Embedding Techniques, Applications, and Performance: A Survey
Palash Goyal, Emilio Ferrara
Graphs, such as social networks, word co-occurrence networks, and communication networks, occur naturally in various real-world applications. Analyzing them yields insight into the…
Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis +2
Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect s…
Early Detection of Promoted Campaigns on Social Media
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer +1
Social media expose millions of users every day to information campaigns --- some emerging organically from grassroots activity, others sustained by advertising or other coordinate…