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Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, David Scott Hunter, Zakaria el Hjouji +1
Online social networks are often subject to influence campaigns by malicious actors through the use of automated accounts known as bots. We consider the problem of detecting bots i…
Optimizing Opinions with Stubborn Agents
D. Scott Hunter, Tauhid Zaman
We consider the problem of optimizing the placement of stubborn agents in a social network in order to maximally influence the population. We assume the network contains stubborn u…
Detecting Influence Campaigns in Social Networks Using the Ising Model
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, Tauhid Zaman
We consider the problem of identifying coordinated influence campaigns conducted by automated agents or bots in a social network. We study several different Twitter datasets which…
Penetrating a Social Network: The Follow-back Problem
Fanyu Que, Krishnan Rajagopalan, Tauhid Zaman
Modern threats have emerged from the prevalence of social networks. Hostile actors, such as extremist groups or foreign governments, utilize these networks to run propaganda campai…