2020
DOI: 10.3390/electronics9122020
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Quantifiable Interactivity of Malicious URLs and the Social Media Ecosystem

Abstract: Online social network (OSN) users are increasingly interacting with each other via articles, comments, and responses. When access control mechanisms are weak or absent, OSNs are perceived by attackers as rich environments for influencing public opinions via fake news posts or influencing commercial transactions via practices such as phishing. This has led to a body of research looking at potential ways to predict OSN user behavior using social science concepts such as conformity and the bandwagon effect. In th… Show more

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“…The biggest disadvantage of the blacklist method is that it cannot detect newly created spam URLs. Studies have been carried out in recent years to cope with this problem by using artificial intelligence and machine learning methods [9,10]. In the machine learning approach, models are first trained using training data.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The biggest disadvantage of the blacklist method is that it cannot detect newly created spam URLs. Studies have been carried out in recent years to cope with this problem by using artificial intelligence and machine learning methods [9,10]. In the machine learning approach, models are first trained using training data.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the main reasons that fake news is spreading rapidly worldwide is that we rely heavily on the information we acquire from social media or any other news platform. There has been much evidence that the news that receives the most significant reaction is often proven wrong later [10,11]. One of these pieces of evidence would be the spreading of the coronavirus, where incorrect and fake information was spread around the world [12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%