There is growing concern amongst policy makers, managers and academic researchers
over the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation, widely described as 'Fake …

Social media bots (automated accounts) attacks are organized crimes that pose potential
threats to public opinion, democracy, public health, stock market and other disciplines. While …

The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated
by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …

Political communication is the process of putting information, technology, and media in the
service of power. Increasingly, political actors are automating such processes, through …

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

The rise of social bots Page 1 96 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JULY 2016 | VOL. 59 |
NO. 7 review articles ILL US TRA TION B Y ARN0 DOI:10.1145/2818717 Today’s social bots …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

Social engineering has emerged as a serious threat in virtual communities and is an
effective means to attack information systems. The services used by today's knowledge …