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Detecting Crowdturfing in Social Media

Synonyms

Astroturfing; Malicious crowdsourcing

Astroturfing:

Astroturfing is the campaign that masks its supporters and sponsors to make it appear to be launched by grassroots participants.

Crowdsourcing:

Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a group of people. Internet services facilitate the process by connecting customers and crowdsourcing workers.

Ground truth:

Ground truth is the accurate annotation of data examples, which is used in statistical models to prove or disprove research hypotheses.

Heterogeneous data:

Heterogeneous data are the data involving multiple modalities, such as a social media post containing texts and video clips.

Information diffusion:

Information diffusion happens between individuals when a flow of information travels from one individual to another.

Misinformation and disinformation:

Misinformation and disinformation are the inaccurate or false information. While disinformation is...

Keywords

  • Ground Truth
  • Social Media
  • Information Diffusion
  • Malicious User
  • Social Media Site

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  1. Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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    Guandong Xu

  2. Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R.China

    Peng Cui

  3. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Guandong Xu

  4. Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R.China

    Peng Cui

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Wu, L., Liu, H. (2017). Detecting Crowdturfing in Social Media. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110196-1

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