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Enhanced bot detection on twibot-20 dataset

Bot detection is critical in safeguarding social networks against malicious activities such as propagating misinformation and shaping public opinion. Twitter, being extensively studied due to its accessibility and interactive nature, serves as an ideal ...
Çakir, S.U., Özcan, A., Osman Atik, M.A.   +2 more
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Dynamics of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter): a computational analysis using NLP and network methods

npj Complexity
This paper explores the dissemination and impact of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter) following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It examines the dynamics of this discourse within the Russian-speaking segment, identifies key actors and ...
Iuliia Alieva, Kathleen M. Carley
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SeBot: Structural Entropy Guided Multi-View Contrastive Learning for Social Bot Detection [PDF]

Recent advancements in social bot detection have been driven by the adoption of Graph Neural Networks. The social graph, constructed from social network interactions, contains benign and bot accounts that influence each other.
Wu, Qi, Peng, Hao, He, Buyun, Yang, Yingguang, Yang, Renyu, Hao, Zhifeng, Liao, Yong   +6 more
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Fusing content and social relationships: a multi-modal heterogeneous graph transformer approach for social bot detection

EPJ Data Science
Social bots pose a significant threat to online platforms, demanding robust methods to detect their increasingly complex behaviors. This paper introduces MM-HGT-Bot, a multi-modal framework that advances the field by operationalizing social network ...
Jianhong Luo, Chaoqi Jin
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Cerberus: a cross-site social bot detection system based on deep learning

智能科学与技术学报
Online social networks attract billions of active users and deeply influence people's lifestyles. However, as public social networks with low requirements for registration and joining, it is inevitable that social bots are able to easily register and do ...
TANG Jiawei, LIU Yushan, GAO Min, GONG Qingyuan, WANG Xin, CHEN Yang   +5 more
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Adversarial Botometer: Adversarial Analysis for Social Bot Detection [PDF]

Social bots play a significant role in many online social networks (OSN) as they imitate human behavior. This fact raises difficult questions about their capabilities and potential risks.
Rafiee, Davood, Salehi, Mostafa, Najari, Shaghayegh, Farahbakhsh, Reza   +3 more
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Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Growing Bot Security: An Ecological View of Bot Agency

International Journal of Communication, 2016
  Political actors are now deploying software programs called social bots that use social networking services such as Facebook or Twitter to communicate with users and manipulate their behavior, creating profound issues for Internet security.
Douglas Guilbeault
doaj  

Digital Deception: Survey Bots and the Ethics of Data Integrity. [PDF]

Ethics Hum Res
Frank-Ito W, Eldridge LA, Matthews J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Participant Fraud: How Imposters and Bots Undermine Health Databases. [PDF]

J Med Internet Res
Dominy C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Battling the Bots and Defending Against Fraudulent Responses in an International Community-Engaged Web-Based Survey With People Living With Long COVID: Methodological Study. [PDF]

J Med Internet Res
McDuff K, Su TT, Brown DA, Martin JM, Chan Carusone S, O'Connell S, O'Donovan I, St Clair-Sullivan N, Townsend L, Goulding S, Kelly M, McCorkell L, Wei H, O'Hara M, Soares L, Avery L, Bannan C, Bergin C, Harding R, Nathanson J, Solomon P, Cheung AM, Vera J, O'Brien KK.   +23 more
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