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THE THESES – 5 5 De Decemb mber 2019 2019

Disinform rmation and Social Bo Bots in in Online Social Network rks

St Stefano

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Cresci (IIT-CNR)

stefano.cresci@iit.cnr.it @s_cresci

RESEARCH QUESTION

An open issue

BI BIG SO SOCIA IAL DA DATA TA

St Stefano Cr Cresci ci: : stefano.cresci@iit.cnr.it @s_cresci

RESEAR ARCH TOPICS AN AND AP APPLICAT ATIONS

to topic ics:

• detection of malicious accounts (social bots, trolls, fakes, …)
• disinformation (fake news, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, …)
• polarization (echo chambers, extremism, hate speech, …)

ap applicat cations:

• politics (political elections, referendum, …)
• controversial discussions (vaccines, immigration, …)
• finance (cryptocurrencies, …)

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ME METH THODOLO LOGIES

• machine learning and artificial intelligence (deep learning)
• big data
• natural language processing
• social network analysis
• information visualization

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BO BOT DE DETECTION

RT RTbust st:

• technique for detecting Twitter bots
• based on deep learning
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Master’ r’s thesis of Mi Michele Ma Mazza

• presented in Boston (USA) in 2019

Mazza, et al. "RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter.” 11th ACM International Conference on Web Science (WebSci). ACM, 2019.

St Stefano Cr Cresci ci: : stefano.cresci@iit.cnr.it @s_cresci

ONLINE CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAU AUDS

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started with Mas Master’ r’s th thesis is of f Se Serena Ta Tardelli & PhD PhD wor

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Leonardo Ni Nizzoli

FAK AKE NEWS IN 2019 EU ELECTIONS

disinformation outlets (fake news)

• fficial news outlets

politicians show business St Stefano Cr Cresci ci: : stefano.cresci@iit.cnr.it @s_cresci

OUR TEAM AM

yo young, dy dynamic, and mu multid tidis iscip iplin inary team:

• 4 computer scientists
• 4 computer engineers
• 1 physician
• 1 economist
• 1 political scientist
• 1 digital anthropologist

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JO JOIN US US!

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SOME PUBLICAT ATIONS

• Mazza, et al. "RT

RTbust: : Exploiting Te Temporal Patterns for Bo Botnet Detection on Tw Twitter.” 11th ACM International Conference on Web Science (WebSci). ACM, 2019.

• Cresci, et al. "Ca

Cashtag pi piggybacking: U Uncoveri ring s spa pam a and b d bot a activity i in s stock m micro roblogs o

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Tw Twitter." ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). ACM, 2019.

• Cresci, et al. "So

Social fi fingerprinting: detection of f sp spam ambot gr groups through gh DN DNA-in inspir ired be behavioral mo modeling." IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. IEEE, 2017.

• Cresci, et al. "Th

The paradigm-sh shift of so social al sp spam ambots: : Evidence, , theories, , and tools for the arms ra race." 26th International Conference on World Wide Web companion (WWW). IW3C2, 2017.

• Cinelli, et al. “Th

The Limited Reach of Fa Fake News on n Tw Twitter during ng 2019 European n El Electi tions.” arXiv:1911.12039. 2020.

St Stefano Cr Cresci ci: : stefano.cresci@iit.cnr.it @s_cresci