Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

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 …

As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of
COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially …

In this paper, we argue that strategic information operations (eg disinformation, political
propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for CSCW …

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 …

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but
disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to …

In this article, we uncover a network of Twitterbots comprising 13,493 accounts that tweeted
the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, only to disappear from …

The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on
social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and …

The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to
manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots—automated or semi …

What began as a quest for artificial general intelligence branched into several pursuits,
including intelligent assistants developed by tech companies and task-oriented chatbots that …