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In recent years, botnet becomes one of the biggest challenges that online social networks are facing. Due to the sudden increase in the botnet, the detection of bots become very […]
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Social botnets have become an important phenomenon on social media. There are many ways in which social bots can disrupt or influence online discourse, such as, spam hashtags, scam twitter […]
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With the significant increase in the volume, velocity, and variety of user data (e.g., user-generated data) in online social networks, there have been attempted to design new ways of collecting […]
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Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective tools for executing spam […]
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Online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and Facebook constitute an open space for developers to create sophisticated machines that imitate human users by automating their social network activities. The […]
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Online social networks (OSNs) are extremely popular among Internet users. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective tools for executing spam campaigns. In this paper, we present an […]
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To help activists call new volunteers to action, we present Botivist: a platform that uses Twitter bots to find potential volunteers and request contributions. By leveraging different Twitter accounts, Botivist […]
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Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and Facebook have become a significant testing ground for Artificial Intelligence developers who build programs, known as socialbots, that imitate actual users by […]
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An artificial intelligence launched by Microsoft on Twitter has backfired, offering some very offensive tweets.
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Philip K. Dick’s seminal novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (adapted into the film Blade Runner ), poses multiple questions about the relations
