The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Prior to the innovation of information communication technologies (ICT), social interactions
evolved within small cultural boundaries such as geo spatial locations. The recent …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of
the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time …

Millions of online posts about different topics and products are shared on popular social
media platforms. One use of this content is to provide crowd-sourced information about a …

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 …

Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of
followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and …