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Do you really follow them? Automatic detection of credulous Twitter users
Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Online Social Media represent a pervasive source of information able to reach a huge audience. Sadly, recent studies show how online social bots (automated, often malicious account…
The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on Twitter
Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Fabio Del Vigna +2
Social Media are nowadays the privileged channel for information spreading and news checking. Unexpectedly for most of the users, automated accounts, also known as social bots, con…
Better Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection
Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi +1
The arm race between spambots and spambot-detectors is made of several cycles (or generations): a new wave of spambots is created (and new spam is spread), new spambot filters are…