Detecting social media manipulation in low-resource languages

S Haider, L Luceri, A Deb, A Badawy, N Peng… - … Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social media have been deliberately used for malicious purposes, including political
manipulation and disinformation. Most research focuses on high-resource languages …

Measurement and early detection of third-party application abuse on Twitter

S Farooqi, Z Shafiq - The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Third-party applications present a convenient way for attackers to orchestrate a large
number of fake and compromised accounts on popular online social networks. Despite …

A General Language for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior

AC Nwala, A Flammini, F Menczer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00639, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

Language agnostic model: detecting islamophobic content on social media

H Khan, JL Phillips - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Southeast …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Social media platforms can struggle to enforce rules preventing online abuse and hate
speech due to the large amount of content that must be manually reviewed. Machine …

A language framework for modeling social media account behavior

AC Nwala, A Flammini, F Menczer - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
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 …

Social Media Bot Policies: Evaluating Passive and Active Enforcement

K Radivojevic, C McAleer, C Conley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The emergence of Multimodal Foundation Models (MFMs) holds significant promise for
transforming social media platforms. However, this advancement also introduces substantial …

Detecting cyberbullying and cyberaggression in social media

D Chatzakou, I Leontiadis, J Blackburn… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting
people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide …

Detecting propaganda on the sentence level during the COVID-19 pandemic

RC Chang, CH Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12269, 2021 - arxiv.org
The spread of misinformation, conspiracy, and questionable content and information
manipulation by foreign adversaries on social media has surged along with the COVID-19 …

Mastodon content warnings: Inappropriate contents in a microblogging platform

M Zignani, C Quadri, A Galdeman, S Gaito… - … ON WEBLOGS AND …, 2019 - air.unimi.it
Our social communications and the expression of our beliefs and thoughts are becoming
increasingly mediated and diffused by online social media. Beyond countless other …

Misinformation detection and adversarial attack cost analysis in directional social networks

H Shao, S Yao, A Jing, S Liu, D Liu… - 2020 29th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a novel detection system of possibly fake accounts on public social
media, called FADE, that uses features based on group behaviors to identify suspicious …