In today's digitalized era, Online Social Networking platforms are growing to be a vital aspect
of each individual's daily life. The availability of the vast amount of information and their …

With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information
disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening …

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 …

Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation,
facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. State-of …

Social bots have become an important component of online social media. Deceptive bots, in
particular, can manipulate online discussions of important issues ranging from elections to …

Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in part by algorithms,
known as social bots, to disseminate misinformation and agitate online discussion. While …

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 …

Efficient and reliable social bot classification is crucial for detecting information manipulation
on social media. Despite rapid development, state-of-the-art bot detection models still face …

Twitter has become a vital social media platform while an ample amount of malicious Twitter
bots exist and induce undesirable social effects. Successful Twitter bot detection proposals …

Background As a number of vaccines for COVID-19 are given emergency use authorization
by local health agencies and are being administered in multiple countries, it is crucial to gain …