[HTML][HTML] Bots, disinformation, and the first impeachment of US President Donald Trump

M Rossetti, T Zaman - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Automated social media accounts, known as bots, have been shown to spread
disinformation and manipulate online discussions. We study the behavior of retweet bots on …

Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of twitter users

S Cresci, R Di Pietro, M Petrocchi, A Spognardi… - Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
DNA-inspired online behavioral modeling techniques have been proposed and successfully
applied to a broad range of tasks. In this paper, we investigate the fundamental laws that …

On the efficacy of old features for the detection of new bots

R De Nicola, M Petrocchi, M Pratelli - Information Processing & …, 2021 - Elsevier
For more than a decade now, academicians and online platform administrators have been
studying solutions to the problem of bot detection. Bots are computer algorithms whose use …

[HTML][HTML] Bot stamina: examining the influence and staying power of bots in online social networks

R Schuchard, AT Crooks, A Stefanidis… - Applied Network …, 2019 - Springer
This study presents a novel approach to expand the emergent area of social bot research.
We employ a methodological framework that aggregates and fuses data from multiple global …

Exposing influence campaigns in the age of LLMs: a behavioral-based AI approach to detecting state-sponsored trolls

F Ezzeddine, O Ayoub, S Giordano, G Nogara… - EPJ Data …, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
The detection of state-sponsored trolls operating in influence campaigns on social media is
a critical and unsolved challenge for the research community, which has significant …

Characterizing social bots spreading financial disinformation

S Tardelli, M Avvenuti, M Tesconi, S Cresci - International conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Despite the existence of several studies on the characteristics and role of social bots in
spreading disinformation related to politics, health, science and education, financial social …

A comparative study of bot detection techniques with an application in Twitter Covid-19 discourse

M Antenore… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Bot Detection is crucial in a world where Online Social Networks (OSNs) play a pivotal role
in our lives as public communication channels. This task becomes highly relevant in crises …

Fine-grained prediction of political leaning on social media with unsupervised deep learning

T Fagni, S Cresci - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2022 - jair.org
Fine-Grained Prediction of Political Leaning on Social Media with Unsupervised Deep
Learning Page 1 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 73 (2022) 633-672 Submitted 06/2021; …

[HTML][HTML] Social botomics: A systematic ensemble ml approach for explainable and multi-class bot detection

I Dimitriadis, K Georgiou, A Vakali - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
OSN platforms are under attack by intruders born and raised within their own ecosystems.
These attacks have multiple scopes from mild critiques to violent offences targeting …

Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media

Y Zouzou, O Varol - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20407, 2023 - arxiv.org
Automated social media accounts, known as bots, are increasingly recognized as key tools
for manipulative online activities. These activities can stem from coordination among several …