A review on social spam detection: Challenges, open issues, and future directions

S Rao, AK Verma, T Bhatia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Online Social Networks are perpetually evolving and used in plenteous
applications such as content sharing, chatting, making friends/followers, customer …

Recent developments in social spam detection and combating techniques: A survey

M Chakraborty, S Pal, R Pramanik… - Information Processing & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Spam in recent years has pervaded all forms of digital communication. The increase in user
base for social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., has opened new avenues for …

Rise of spam and compromised accounts in online social networks: A state-of-the-art review of different combating approaches

R Kaur, S Singh, H Kumar - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Ever increasing fame and obsession for social networks has also coxswained a dramatic
increase in the presence of malicious activities. As a result, various researchers have …

The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race

S Cresci, R Di Pietro, M Petrocchi… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of
the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time …

Spam detection on social networks using cost-sensitive feature selection and ensemble-based regularized deep neural networks

A Barushka, P Hajek - Neural Computing and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Spam detection on social networks is increasingly important owing to the rapid growth of
social network user base. Sophisticated spam filters must be developed to deal with this …

Spammer detection and fake user identification on social networks

F Masood, A Almogren, A Abbas, HA Khattak… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social networking sites engage millions of users around the world. The users' interactions
with these social sites, such as Twitter and Facebook have a tremendous impact and …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective genetic algorithm and CNN-based deep learning architectural scheme for effective spam detection

WS Jacob - International Journal of Intelligent Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
E-mail has traditionally been regarded as the most powerful medium in online social
networks, where users can discuss, connect, and share links with other online social media …

Making the most of tweet-inherent features for social spam detection on Twitter

B Wang, A Zubiaga, M Liakata, R Procter - arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07405, 2015 - arxiv.org
Social spam produces a great amount of noise on social media services such as Twitter,
which reduces the signal-to-noise ratio that both end users and data mining applications …

Hybrid ensemble framework with self-attention mechanism for social spam detection on imbalanced data

S Rao, AK Verma, T Bhatia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Cybercriminals use social media platforms to disseminate spam, misleading facts, fake
news, and malicious links. Blocking such deceptive social media spam is essential …

Spam detection on social media using semantic convolutional neural network

G Jain, M Sharma, B Agarwal - International Journal of Knowledge …, 2018 - igi-global.com
This article describes how spam detection in the social media text is becoming increasing
important because of the exponential increase in the spam volume over the network. It is …