We present a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities in social bot
detection in the context of the rise of sophisticated AI-based chatbots. By examining the state …

Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive
civil unrest. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook—the world's largest …

The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related
misinformation—the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic—that makes populations more …

Detecting which nodes in graphs are outliers is a relatively new machine learning task with
numerous applications. Despite the proliferation of algorithms developed in recent years for …

The emergence of tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's
ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google's Bard, has garnered immense public attention …

On digital media, algorithms that process data and recommend content have become
ubiquitous. Their fast and barely regulated adoption has raised concerns about their role in …

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities in generating realistic text
across diverse subjects. Concerns have been raised that they could be utilized to produce …

Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news,
propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about textual …

Effective employment of social media for any social influence outcome requires a detailed
understanding of the target audience. Social media provides a rich repository of self …

Social media is one of the main sources for news consumption, especially among the
younger generation. With the increasing popularity of news consumption on various social …