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Massive content about user's social, personal and professional life stored on Online Social Networks (OSNs) has attracted not only the attention of researchers and social analysts but also the cyber criminals. These cyber criminals…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Mudasir Ahmad Wani , Suraiya Jabin , Ghulam Yazdani , Nehaluddin Ahmadd

A reliable inference of networks from data is of key interest in the Neurosciences. Several methods have been suggested in the literature to reliably determine links in a network. To decide about the presence of links, these techniques rely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-29 Gloria Cecchini , Marco Thiel , Bjoern Schelter , Linda Sommerlade

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are used by millions of users worldwide. Academically speaking, there is little doubt about the usefulness of demographic studies conducted on OSNs and, hence, methods to label unknown users from small labeled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Daniel Gayo-Avello

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Simon Lermen , Daniel Paleka , Joshua Swanson , Michael Aerni , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr

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

Deepfake detection refers to detecting artificially generated or edited faces in images or videos, which plays an essential role in visual information security. Despite promising progress in recent years, Deepfake detection remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chunlei Peng , Huiqing Guo , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

Spotting and removing fake profiles could curb the menace of fake news in society. This paper, thus, investigates fake profile detection in social networks via users' typing patterns. We created a novel dataset of 468 posts from 26 users on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Alvin Kuruvilla , Rojanaye Daley , Rajesh Kumar

Detecting false information on social media is critical in mitigating its negative societal impacts. To reduce the propagation of false information, automated detection provide scalable, unbiased, and cost-effective methods. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Sarah Condran

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

Online social networks (OSNs) are trendy and rapid information propagation medium on the web where millions of new connections either positive such as acquaintance or negative such as animosity, are being established every day around the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Mudasir Ahmad Wani , Suraiya Jabin

Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Privacy is typically protected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arvind Narayanan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Detecting influential users, called the influence maximization problem on social networks, is an important graph mining problem with many diverse applications such as information propagation, market advertising, and rumor controlling. There…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ashley Hahn

LinkedIn is the largest professional network with more than 350 million members. As the member base increases, searching for experts becomes more and more challenging. In this paper, we propose an approach to address the problem of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Viet Ha-Thuc , Ganesh Venkataraman , Mario Rodriguez , Shakti Sinha , Senthil Sundaram , Lin Guo

In the recent years, social media has grown to become a major source of information for many online users. This has given rise to the spread of misinformation through deepfakes. Deepfakes are videos or images that replace one persons face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jacob Mallet , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Mounika Vanamala

A profile matching algorithm takes as input a user profile of one social network and returns, if existing, the profile of the same person in another social network. Such methods have immediate applications in Internet marketing, search,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Alexander Panchenko , Dmitry Babaev , Sergei Obiedkov

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Karishma Sharma , Feng Qian , He Jiang , Natali Ruchansky , Ming Zhang , Yan Liu

The wide spread of false information online including misinformation and disinformation has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society. A lot of research has been done to better understand different aspects of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Haiyue Yuan , Enes Altuncu , Shujun Li , Can Baskent

It is common practice nowadays to use multiple social networks for different social roles. Although this, these networks assume differences in content type, communications and style of speech. If we intend to understand human behaviour as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Timur Sokhin , Nikolay Butakov , Denis Nasonov

Verifying the authenticity of identity documents (IDs) has become a critical challenge for real-life applications such as digital banking, crypto-exchanges, renting, etc. This study focuses on the topic of fake ID detection, covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Javier Muñoz-Haro , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez

User identification has been a major field of research in privacy and security topics. Users might utilize multiple Online Social Networks (OSNs) to access a variety of text, videos, and links, and connect to their friends. Identifying user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yasamin Kowsari