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BotSSCL: Social Bot Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Navid Shadman Bhuiyan, Rahat Masood +2
The detection of automated accounts, also known as "social bots", has been an increasingly important concern for online social networks (OSNs). While several methods have been prop…
False Information, Bots and Malicious Campaigns: Demystifying Elements of Social Media Manipulations
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram +1
The rapid spread of false information and persistent manipulation attacks on online social networks (OSNs), often for political, ideological, or financial gain, has affected the op…
Machine Learning-based Automatic Annotation and Detection of COVID-19 Fake News
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake +3
COVID-19 impacted every part of the world, although the misinformation about the outbreak traveled faster than the virus. Misinformation spread through online social networks (OSN)…
Identifying highly influential travellers for spreading disease on a public transport system
Ahmad El Shoghri, Jessica Liebig, Raja Jurdak +2
The recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus and its rapid spread underlines the importance of understanding human mobility. Enclosed spaces, such as public transport vehicles (e.g.…
How mobility patterns drive disease spread: A case study using public transit passenger card travel data
Ahmad El Shoghri, Jessica Liebig, Lauren Gardner +2
Outbreaks of infectious diseases present a global threat to human health and are considered a major health-care challenge. One major driver for the rapid spatial spread of diseases…