Elenco Pubblicazioni - Publications (1524)
M. Mazza, S. Cresci, M. Avvenuti, W. Quattrociocchi, and M. Tesconi, “RTbust: Exploiting temporal patterns for botnet detection on twitter,” in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2019
Written by MICHELE MAZZA
Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study retweeting behaviors on Twitter, with the ultimate…
L. Porfilio, M. Mazza, S. Cresci, M. Avvenuti, M. Tesconi, "Characterizing different actors in IOs through a large-scale quantitative analysis", Understanding Information Operations with Twitter Data: a Workshop Series, 2020
Written by MICHELE MAZZA
Information or influence operations have been used to manipulate crowds and often involve mass, coordinated inauthentic behaviors in social media. Although these operations can take many different forms and aim at different purposes, to succeed,…
M. Mazza, G. Cola, "The role of Twitter fraudulent accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study." The 1st International Workshop on Information Disorder: Disinformation and Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (DISINFO’20), 2020
Written by MICHELE MAZZA
The use of social media, like Twitter or Facebook, as a means to gather information on disparate subjects has increased dramatically over the last few years. A growing number of users rely on such applications…
M. Mazza, M. Avvenuti, S. Cresci, and M. Tesconi, “Investigating the difference between trolls, social bots, and humans on Twitter,” Computer Communications, vol. 196, pp. 23–36, 2022
Written by MICHELE MAZZA
It has become apparent that human accounts are not the sole actors in the social media scenario. The expanding role of social media in the consumption and diffusion of information has been accompanied by attempts…
M. Mazza, G. Cola, and M. Tesconi, “Ready-to-(ab)use: From fake account trafficking to coordinated inauthentic behavior on Twitter,” Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 31, no. 100224, p. 100224, 2022
Written by MICHELE MAZZA
Fake accounts are the primary means for misuse and abuse of social media platforms, giving rise to coordinated inauthentic behaviors. Despite ongoing efforts to limit their exploitation, ready-to-use fake accounts can be found for sale on…
