A decade of social bot detection Page 1 72 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | OCTOBER
2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 10 review articles ON THE MORNING of November 9, 2016, the world …

We present a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities in social bot
detection in the context of the rise of sophisticated AI-based chatbots. By examining the state …

As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of
COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially …

Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation,
facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. State-of …

The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related
misinformation—the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic—that makes populations more …

In late March of 2020, a new hashtag,# FilmYourHospital, made its first appearance on
social media. The hashtag encouraged people to visit local hospitals to take pictures and …

Social bots have become an important component of online social media. Deceptive bots, in
particular, can manipulate online discussions of important issues ranging from elections to …

Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in part by algorithms,
known as social bots, to disseminate misinformation and agitate online discussion. While …

Democracies are postulated upon the ability to carry out fair elections, free from any form of
interference or manipulation. Social media have been reportedly used to distort public …

The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier" Botometer"
was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list of …