An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach
There has been a tremendous increase in the popularity of social media such as blogs, Instagram, twitter, online websites etc. The increasing utilization of these platforms have enabled the users to share information on a regular basis and also publicize social events. Nevertheless, most of the mult...
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| description | There has been a tremendous increase in the popularity of social media such as blogs, Instagram, twitter, online websites etc. The increasing utilization of these platforms have enabled the users to share information on a regular basis and also publicize social events. Nevertheless, most of the multimedia events are filled with social bots which raise concerns on the authenticity of the information shared in these events. With the increasing advancements of social bots, the complexity of detecting and fact-checking is also increasing. This is mainly due to the similarity between authorized users and social bots. Several researchers have introduced different models for detecting social bots and fact checking. However, these models suffer from various challenges. In most of the cases, these bots become indistinguishable from existing users and it is challenging to extract relevant attributes of the bots. In addition, it is also challenging to collect large scale data and label them for training the bot detection models. The performance of existing traditional classifiers used for bot detection processes is not satisfactory. This paper presents: • A machine learning based adaptive fuzzy neuro model integrated with a hist gradient boosting (HGB) classifier for identifying the persisting pattern of social bots for fake news detection. • And Harris Hawk optimization with Bi-LSTM for social bot prediction. • Results validate the efficacy of the HGB classifier which achieves a phenomenal accuracy of 95.64 % for twitter bot and 98.98 % for twitch bot dataset. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7fbd68313d364b3b95f33224782911b62023-12-04T05:22:42ZengElsevierMethodsX2215-01612023-12-0111102430An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approachMonikka Reshmi Sethurajan0Natarajan K．1Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Kengeri Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074, India; Corresponding author.Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Kengeri Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074, IndiaThere has been a tremendous increase in the popularity of social media such as blogs, Instagram, twitter, online websites etc. The increasing utilization of these platforms have enabled the users to share information on a regular basis and also publicize social events. Nevertheless, most of the multimedia events are filled with social bots which raise concerns on the authenticity of the information shared in these events. With the increasing advancements of social bots, the complexity of detecting and fact-checking is also increasing. This is mainly due to the similarity between authorized users and social bots. Several researchers have introduced different models for detecting social bots and fact checking. However, these models suffer from various challenges. In most of the cases, these bots become indistinguishable from existing users and it is challenging to extract relevant attributes of the bots. In addition, it is also challenging to collect large scale data and label them for training the bot detection models. The performance of existing traditional classifiers used for bot detection processes is not satisfactory. This paper presents: • A machine learning based adaptive fuzzy neuro model integrated with a hist gradient boosting (HGB) classifier for identifying the persisting pattern of social bots for fake news detection. • And Harris Hawk optimization with Bi-LSTM for social bot prediction. • Results validate the efficacy of the HGB classifier which achieves a phenomenal accuracy of 95.64 % for twitter bot and 98.98 % for twitch bot dataset.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016123004260Social bot detectionCyber attacksMachine learningClassification accuracyFact checkingFeature extraction |
| spellingShingle | Monikka Reshmi Sethurajan Natarajan K． An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach MethodsX Social bot detection Cyber attacks Machine learning Classification accuracy Fact checking Feature extraction |
| title | An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| title_full | An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| title_fullStr | An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| title_short | An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| title_sort | adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach |
| topic | Social bot detection Cyber attacks Machine learning Classification accuracy Fact checking Feature extraction |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016123004260 |
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