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Behavior Change as a Signal for Identifying Social Media Manipulation
Isuru Ariyarathne, Gangani Ariyarathne, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media accounts engaging in online manipulation can change their behaviors for re-purposing or to evade detection. Existing detection systems are built on features that do no…
Unmasking Social Bots: How Confident Are We?
James Giroux, Ariyarathne Gangani, Alexander C. Nwala +1
Social bots remain a major vector for spreading disinformation on social media and a menace to the public. Despite the progress made in developing multiple sophisticated social bot…
Social Bots: Detection and Challenges
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Alexander C. Nwala +4
While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges…
A General Language for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior
Alexander C. Nwala, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Malicious actors exploit social media to inflate stock prices, sway elections, spread misinformation, and sow discord. To these ends, they employ tactics that include the use of in…
Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions
Christopher Torres-Lugo, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala +1
Research into influence campaigns on Twitter has mostly relied on identifying malicious activities from tweets obtained via public APIs. These APIs provide access to public tweets…