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 …

Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It
constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both …

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 …

Today's proliferation of powerful facial recognition systems poses a real threat to personal
privacy. As Clearview. ai demonstrated, anyone can canvas the Internet for data and train …

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 …

False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media
platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information …

Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a
unanimous conclusion: social media are systematically exploited to manipulate and alter …

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 …

Social media have been extensively praised for increasing democratic discussion on social
issues related to policy and politics. However, what happens when this powerful …

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 …