Social Bots: Detection and Challenges
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| author | Yang, Kai-Cheng Varol, Onur Nwala, Alexander C. Sayyadiharikandeh, Mohsen Ferrara, Emilio Flammini, Alessandro Menczer, Filippo |
| author_facet | Yang, Kai-Cheng Varol, Onur Nwala, Alexander C. Sayyadiharikandeh, Mohsen Ferrara, Emilio Flammini, Alessandro Menczer, Filippo |
| contents | 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 bots, a prominent vehicle for such manipulation. We start by discussing recent studies about the presence and actions of social bots in various online discussions to show their real-world implications and the need for detection methods. Then we discuss the challenges of bot detection methods and use Botometer, a publicly available bot detection tool, as a case study to describe recent developments in this area. We close with a practical guide on how to handle social bots in social media research. |
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| spellingShingle | Social Bots: Detection and Challenges Yang, Kai-Cheng Varol, Onur Nwala, Alexander C. Sayyadiharikandeh, Mohsen Ferrara, Emilio Flammini, Alessandro Menczer, Filippo Social and Information Networks 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 bots, a prominent vehicle for such manipulation. We start by discussing recent studies about the presence and actions of social bots in various online discussions to show their real-world implications and the need for detection methods. Then we discuss the challenges of bot detection methods and use Botometer, a publicly available bot detection tool, as a case study to describe recent developments in this area. We close with a practical guide on how to handle social bots in social media research. |
| title | Social Bots: Detection and Challenges |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17423 |