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An intelligent system for multi-topic social spam detection in microblogging

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The communication revolution has perpetually reshaped the means through which people send and receive information. Social media is an important pillar of this revolution and has brought profound changes to various aspects of our lives. However, the open environment and popularity of these platforms inaugurate windows of opportunities for various cyber threats, thus social networks have become a fertile venue for spammers and other illegitimate users to execute their malicious activities. These activities include phishing hot and trendy topics and posting a wide range of contents in many topics. Hence, it is crucial to continuously introduce new techniques and approaches to detect and stop this category of users. This article proposes a novel and effective approach to detect social spammers. An investigation into several attributes to measure topic-dependent and topic-independent users' behaviours on Twitter is carried out. The experiments of this study are undertaken on various machine learning classifiers. The performance of these classifiers is compared and their effectiveness is measured via a number of robust evaluation measures. Furthermore, the proposed approach is benchmarked against state-of-the-art social spam and anomalous detection techniques. These experiments report the effectiveness and utility of the proposed approach and embedded modules.

Cyber threatsmachine learningonline social networkssemantic analysissocial credibilitysocial spammers

Bilal Abu-Salih、Dana Al Qudah、Malak Al-Hassan、Seyed Mohssen Ghafari、Tomayess Issa、Ibrahim Aljarah、Amin Beheshti、Sulaiman Alqahtani

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The University of Jordan, Jordan

Macquarie University, Australia

Curtin University, Australia

2024

Journal of information science: Principles & practice

Journal of information science: Principles & practice

EI
ISSN:0165-5515
年,卷(期):2024.50(6)
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