IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
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| author | Minici, Marco Luceri, Luca Fabbri, Francesco Ferrara, Emilio |
| author_facet | Minici, Marco Luceri, Luca Fabbri, Francesco Ferrara, Emilio |
| contents | Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives. However, their open nature also makes them vulnerable to exploitation by malicious actors, including state-sponsored entities, who can conduct information operations (IOs) to manipulate public opinion. The spread of misinformation, false news, and misleading claims threatens democratic processes and societal cohesion, making it crucial to develop methods for the timely detection of inauthentic activity to protect the integrity of online discourse. In this work, we introduce a methodology designed to identify users orchestrating information operations, a.k.a. IO drivers, across various influence campaigns. Our framework, named IOHunter, leverages the combined strengths of Language Models and Graph Neural Networks to improve generalization in supervised, scarcely-supervised, and cross-IO contexts. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple sets of IOs originating from six countries, significantly surpassing existing approaches. This research marks a step toward developing Graph Foundation Models specifically tailored for the task of IO detection on social media platforms. |
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| spellingShingle | IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations Minici, Marco Luceri, Luca Fabbri, Francesco Ferrara, Emilio Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives. However, their open nature also makes them vulnerable to exploitation by malicious actors, including state-sponsored entities, who can conduct information operations (IOs) to manipulate public opinion. The spread of misinformation, false news, and misleading claims threatens democratic processes and societal cohesion, making it crucial to develop methods for the timely detection of inauthentic activity to protect the integrity of online discourse. In this work, we introduce a methodology designed to identify users orchestrating information operations, a.k.a. IO drivers, across various influence campaigns. Our framework, named IOHunter, leverages the combined strengths of Language Models and Graph Neural Networks to improve generalization in supervised, scarcely-supervised, and cross-IO contexts. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple sets of IOs originating from six countries, significantly surpassing existing approaches. This research marks a step toward developing Graph Foundation Models specifically tailored for the task of IO detection on social media platforms. |
| title | IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14663 |