Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet

KC Yang, F Menczer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16336, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Cross-platform spread: vaccine-related content, sources, and conspiracy theories in YouTube videos shared in early Twitter COVID-19 conversations

T Ginossar, IJ Cruickshank, E Zheleva… - Human vaccines & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High uptake of vaccinations is essential in fighting infectious diseases, including severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the ongoing …

Coordinated behavior on social media in 2019 UK general election

L Nizzoli, S Tardelli, M Avvenuti, S Cresci… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Coordinated online behaviors are an essential part of information and influence operations,
as they allow a more effective disinformation's spread. Most studies on coordinated …

Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots

LHX Ng, IJ Cruickshank, KM Carley - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022 - Springer
Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An
average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time …

Multi-contextual learning in disinformation research: A review of challenges, approaches, and opportunities

B Das - Online Social Networks and Media, 2023 - Elsevier
Though a fair amount of research is being done to address disinformation in online social
media, it has so far managed to stay ahead of the researchers' learning curves forcing the …

A language framework for modeling social media account behavior

AC Nwala, A Flammini, F Menczer - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
Malicious actors exploit social media to inflate stock prices, sway elections, spread
misinformation, and sow discord. To these ends, they employ tactics that include the use of …

Computational communication methods for examining problematic news-sharing practices on Facebook at scale

D Angus, A Bruns, E Hurcombe… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, have been clearly identified as
important platforms for the dissemination of mis-and disinformation and related problematic …

Rapid sharing of Islamophobic hate on Facebook: The case of the Tablighi Jamaat controversy

P Ghasiya, K Sasahara - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about several challenges in addition to the virus itself. The
rise of Islamophobic hate speech on social media is one such challenge. As countries were …

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 …

A workflow to detect, monitor, and update lists of coordinated social media accounts across time: The case of the 2022 italian election

F Giglietto, G Marino, R Mincigrucci… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Information operations that target public opinion often exploit breaking news, crises, and
elections by using coordinated social media actors to disseminate problematic content …