Detecting inorganic financial campaigns on Twitter

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Highlights:

• The more viral a financial discussion is, the more social bots participate in it.

• The best model for detecting inorganic financial discussions achieved F1 = 0.97.

• Detection on the extent of inorganic financial content achieved R2 = 0.81.

• User, discussion, and financial-derived features proved to be highly informative.

摘要

•The more viral a financial discussion is, the more social bots participate in it.•The best model for detecting inorganic financial discussions achieved F1 = 0.97.•Detection on the extent of inorganic financial content achieved R2 = 0.81.•User, discussion, and financial-derived features proved to be highly informative.

论文关键词:Disinformation,Financial spam,Social bots,Twitter

论文评审过程:Received 15 September 2020, Revised 14 January 2021, Accepted 14 March 2021, Available online 24 March 2021, Version of Record 27 September 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2021.101769