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The communication revolution has perpetually reshaped the means through which people send and receive information. Social media is an important pillar of this revolution and has brought profound changes to various aspects of our lives.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bilal Abu-Salih , Dana Al Qudah , Malak Al-Hassan , Seyed Mohssen Ghafari , Tomayess Issa , Ibrahim Aljarah , Amin Beheshti , Sulaiman Alqahtan

Online reviews are potent sources for industry owners and buyers, however opportunistic people may try to destruct or promote their desired product by publishing fake comments named spam opinion. So far, many models have been developed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Amir Jalaly Bidgolya , Zoleikha Rahmaniana

Impersonators are playing an important role in the production and propagation of the content on Online Social Networks, notably on Instagram. These entities are nefarious fake accounts that intend to disguise a legitimate account by making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Koosha Zarei , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi , Gareth Tyson

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges and their analysis. In this Chapter, we focus on malicious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Kai-Cheng Yang , Onur Varol , Alexander C. Nwala , Mohsen Sayyadiharikandeh , Emilio Ferrara , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

Internet is one of the important inventions and a large number of persons are its users. These persons use this for different purposes. There are different social media platforms that are accessible to these users. Any user can make a post…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alim Al Ayub Ahmed , Ayman Aljabouh , Praveen Kumar Donepudi , Myung Suh Choi

Facebook is the online social networks (OSNs) platform with the largest number of users in the world today, information protection based on Facebook social network platform have important practical significance. Since the information users…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Xiaoqing Liu , Yinyin Peng , Jie Wang , Zhaoxia Yin

In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks. The widespread attention on detecting and characterizing false news has been motivated by considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Stefano Ceri

Existence of spam URLs over emails and Online Social Media (OSM) has become a growing phenomenon. To counter the dissemination issues associated with long complex URLs in emails and character limit imposed on various OSM (like Twitter), the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Neha Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits designed to convince a victim to provide personal information, usually for the monetary gain of the attacker. Phishing has become the most popular practice among the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Aanchal Jain , Vineet Richariya

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Luca de Alfaro , Massimo Di Pierro , Rakshit Agrawal , Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret

The prevalence of coordinated information campaigns in social media platforms has significant negative consequences across various domains, including social, political, and economic processes. This paper proposes a multifaceted framework…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Kin Wai Ng , Adriana Iamnitchi

Viewing social apps as sociotechnical systems makes clear that they are not mere pieces of technology but mediate human interaction and may unintentionally enable harmful behaviors like online harassment. As more users interact through…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sanjana Cheerla , Vaibhav Garg , Saikath Bhattacharya , Munindar P. Singh

In this paper we compare the use of several features in the task of content filtering for video social networks, a very challenging task, not only because the unwanted content is related to very high-level semantic concepts (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Eduardo Valle , Sandra de Avila , Antonio da Luz , Fillipe de Souza , Marcelo Coelho , Arnaldo Araújo

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

The rise in the adoption of blockchain technology has led to increased illegal activities by cyber-criminals costing billions of dollars. Many machine learning algorithms are applied to detect such illegal behavior. These algorithms are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Rohit Kumar Sachan , Rachit Agarwal , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Fake news in social media has quickly become one of the most discussed topics in today's society. With false information proliferating and causing a significant impact in the political, economical, and social domains, research efforts to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Nuno Guimarães , Álvaro Figueira , Luís Torgo

There has been an increasingly widespread agreement among both academic circles and the general public that the Social Media Platforms (SMPs) play a central role in the dissemination of harmful and negative sentiment content in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ritumbra Manuvie , Saikat Chatterjee

The rise of fake news in the past decade has brought with it a host of consequences, from swaying opinions on elections to generating uncertainty during a pandemic. A majority of methods developed to combat disinformation either focus on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Mansooreh Karami , Tahora H. Nazer , Huan Liu

Social Media is a cyber-security risk for every business. What do people share on the Internet? Almost everything about oneself is shared: friendship, demographics, family, activities, and work-related information. This could become a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Guerrino Mazzarolo , Juan Carlos Fernandez Casas , Anca Delia Jurcut , Nhien-AnLe-Khac