[HTML][HTML] Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?

T Khan, A Michalas, A Akhunzada - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Social Networks' omnipresence and ease of use has revolutionized the generation and
distribution of information in today's world. However, easy access to information does not …

Fake news detection based on explicit and implicit signals of a hybrid crowd: An approach inspired in meta-learning

PMS Freire, FRM da Silva, RR Goldschmidt - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of automatic Fake News detection in digital media of news distribution (DMND-
eg, social networks, online newspaper, etc) has become even more relevant. Among the …

DeeProBot: a hybrid deep neural network model for social bot detection based on user profile data

K Hayawi, S Mathew, N Venugopal, MM Masud… - Social Network Analysis …, 2022 - Springer
Use of online social networks (OSNs) undoubtedly brings the world closer. OSNs like Twitter
provide a space for expressing one's opinions in a public platform. This great potential is …

Combating fake news: Stakeholder interventions and potential solutions

A Gupta, N Kumar, P Prabhat, R Gupta, S Tanwar… - Ieee …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fake news “infodemic”, facilitated by social media and mobile message sharing
platforms, has progressed from causing a nuisance to seriously impacting law and order …

Detect me if you can: Spam bot detection using inductive representation learning

S Ali Alhosseini, R Bin Tareaf, P Najafi… - … proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Spam Bots have become a threat to online social networks with their malicious behavior,
posting misinformation messages and influencing online platforms to fulfill their motives. As …

Amplifying influence through coordinated behaviour in social networks

D Weber, F Neumann - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2021 - Springer
Political misinformation, astroturfing and organised trolling are online malicious behaviours
with significant real-world effects that rely on making the voices of the few sounds like the …

Who's in the gang? Revealing coordinating communities in social media

D Weber, F Neumann - … in Social Networks Analysis and Mining …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Political astroturfing and organised trolling are online malicious behaviours with significant
real-world effects. Common approaches examining these phenomena focus on broad …

A comparative study of bot detection techniques with an application in Twitter Covid-19 discourse

M Antenore… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Bot Detection is crucial in a world where Online Social Networks (OSNs) play a pivotal role
in our lives as public communication channels. This task becomes highly relevant in crises …

# ArsonEmergency and Australia's “Black Summer”: Polarisation and misinformation on social media

D Weber, M Nasim, L Falzon, L Mitchell - Disinformation in Open Online …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract During the summer of 2019–2020, while Australia suffered unprecedented
bushfires across the country, false narratives regarding arson and limited backburning …

You talkin'to me? Exploring human/bot communication patterns during riot events

E Kušen, M Strembeck - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
We analyze a data-set including more than 4.5 million tweets related to four highly emotional
riot events. In particular, we examine statistically significant structural patterns that emerge …