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Online propaganda detection pipelines expose measurable privacy risks at multiple stages including data collection, feature extraction, and model inference. We conduct a structured analysis of $162$ peer-reviewed studies and formalize the…
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Online commerce relies heavily on user generated reviews to provide unbiased information about products that they have not physically seen. The importance of reviews has attracted multiple exploitative online behaviours and requires methods…
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We introduce Fraud-R1, a benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs' ability to defend against internet fraud and phishing in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Fraud-R1 comprises 8,564 fraud cases sourced from phishing scams, fake job postings,…
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