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| DOI | 10.1145/3419369 | ||||
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The rise of bots and their influence on social networks is a hot topic that has aroused the interest of many researchers. Despite the efforts to detect social bots, it is still difficult to distinguish them from legitimate users. Here, we propose a simple yet effective semi-supervised method that allows distinguishing between bots and legitimate users with high accuracy. The method learns a joint representation of social connections and interactions between users by leveraging graph-based representation learning. Then, on the proximity graph derived from user embeddings, a sample of bots is used as seeds for a label propagation algorithm. We demonstrate that when the label propagation is done according to pairwise account proximity, our method achieves F1 = 0.93, whereas other state-of-the-art techniques achieve F1 <= 0.87. By applying our method to a large dataset of retweets, we uncover the presence of different clusters of bots in the network of Twitter interactions. Interestingly, such clusters feature different degrees of integration with legitimate users. By analyzing the interactions produced by the different clusters of bots, our results suggest that a significant group of users was systematically exposed to content produced by bots and to interactions with bots, indicating the presence of a selective exposure phenomenon.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | MENDOZA-ROCHA, MARCELO GABRIEL | Hombre |
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile
Universidad Técnica - Chile |
| 2 | Tesconi, Maurizio | Hombre |
IIT CNR - Italia
Natl Res Council IIT CNR - Italia Universidad Técnica - Chile Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile |
| 3 | Cresci, Stefano | Hombre |
IIT CNR - Italia
Natl Res Council IIT CNR - Italia Universidad Técnica - Chile Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile |
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| EU |
| Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data |
| ANID Fondecyt |
| EU H2020 Program |
| ANID FONDECYT grant |
| European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics |
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| This research is supported in part by the EU H2020 Program under the scheme INFRAIA-01-2018-2019: Research and Innovation action 001 under Grant agreement 871042378 001 SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics. Dr. Mendoza acknowledge funding support from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, ANID PIA/APOYO AFB180002 and from ANID FONDECYT grant 1200211. |
| This research is supported in part by the EU H2020 Program under the scheme INFRAIA-01-2018-2019: Research and Innovation action 001 under Grant agreement 871042378 001 SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics. Dr. Mendoza acknowledge funding support from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, ANID PIA/APOYO AFB180002 and from ANID FONDECYT grant 1200211. Authors’ addresses: M. Mendoza, Department of Informatics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile; email: marcelo.mendoza@usm.cl; M. Tesconi and S. Cresci (corresponding author), Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy; emails: {maurizio. tesconi, stefano.cresci}@iit.cnr.it. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. © 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. 1046-8188/2020/10-ART5 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3419369 |