ALETHEIA: Combating Social Media Influence Campaigns with Graph Neural Networks
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One strong evidence source: arxiv
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The claim presents an emerging narrative with some uncertainties, as it involves the development of a new system (ALETHEIA) to detect and forecast behaviors of malicious accounts in influence campaigns, but it is based on a single evidence source, suggesting minor gaps in the story.
Influence campaigns are a growing concern in the online spaces. Policymakers, moderators and researchers have taken various routes to fight these campaigns and make online systems safer for regular users. To this end, our paper presents ALETHEIA, a system that formalizes the detection of malicious accounts (or troll accounts) used in such operations and forecasts their behaviors within social media networks. We analyze influence campaigns on Reddit and X from different countries and highlight...