Early detection and prevention of malicious user behavior on Twitter using deep learning techniques

dc.contributor.authorSánchez Corcuera, Rubén
dc.contributor.authorZubiaga, Arkaitz
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Aitor
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-03T10:27:14Z
dc.date.available2025-03-03T10:27:14Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-03-03T10:27:13Z
dc.description.abstractOrganized misinformation campaigns on Twitter continue to proliferate, even as the platform acknowledges such activities through its transparency center. These deceptive initiatives significantly impact vital societal issues, including climate change, thus spurring research aimed at pinpointing and intercepting these malicious actors. Present-day algorithms for detecting bots harness an array of data drawn from user profiles, tweets, and network configurations, delivering commendable outcomes. Yet, these strategies mainly concentrate on postincident identification of malevolent users, hinging on static training datasets that categorize individuals based on historical activities. Diverging from this approach, we advocate for a forward-thinking methodology, which utilizes user data to foresee and mitigate potential threats before their realization, thereby cultivating more secure, equitable, and unbiased online communities. To this end, our proposed technique forecasts malevolent activities by tracing the projected trajectories of user embeddings before any malevolent action materializes. For validation, we employed a dynamic directed multigraph paradigm to chronicle the evolving engagements between Twitter users. When juxtaposed against the identical dataset, our technique eclipses contemporary methodologies by an impressive 40.66% in F score (F1 score) in the anticipatory identification of harmful users. Furthermore, we undertook a model evaluation exercise to gauge the efficiency of distinct system elements.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain under Grant PID2021-128969OB-I00 (INCEPTION project)en
dc.identifier.citationSanchez-Corcuera, R., Zubiaga, A., & Almeida, A. (2024). Early Detection and Prevention of Malicious User Behavior on Twitter Using Deep Learning Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(5), 6649-6661. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2024.3419171
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TCSS.2024.3419171
dc.identifier.eissn2329-924X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2422
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
dc.rights© 2024 The Authors
dc.subject.otherForeseeing
dc.subject.otherMalicious users
dc.subject.otherSocial networks
dc.subject.otherTwitter
dc.titleEarly detection and prevention of malicious user behavior on Twitter using deep learning techniquesen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage6661
oaire.citation.issue5
oaire.citation.startPage6649
oaire.citation.titleIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
oaire.citation.volume11
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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