What is it about?
Social bots are a long studied, yet unsolved, problem in our online social ecosystems and several detection trends appeared through time. This systematic review explores past and current detection trends, and forecasts what could be 'the next big thing' in social bot detection.
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Why is it important?
Social bots are among the weapons of choice for deceiving and manipulating online platforms. Studying a decade of endeavors in social bot detection can help defend online discussions from strategic interference. Moreover, it can also inform strategies for detecting and mitigating the effects of other—more recent—forms of online deception, such as strategic information operations and political trolls.
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This page is a summary of: A decade of social bot detection, Communications of the ACM, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3409116.
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