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Is this the Era of Misinformation yet: Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses

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Rafael Angarita,

Ilaria RennaAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018

Pages 1557 - 1561

https://doi.org/10.1145/3184558.3191610

Published: 23 April 2018 Publication History

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Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public exposure. Anyone, even social bots, can reach out to a vast community and expose one's opinion. But what happens when fake news is (un)intentionally spread within a social media This paper reviews techniques that can be used to fabricate fake news and depicts a scenario where social bots evolve in a fully semantic Web to infest social media with automatically generated deceptive information.

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Index Terms

Is this the Era of Misinformation yet: Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Social content sharing
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
      2. Social networks

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