Related papers: Entendre, a Social Bot Detection Tool for Niche, Fringe, and Extreme Social Media

Entendre, a Social Bot Detection Tool for Niche, Fringe, and Extreme Social Media

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06900v1
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:50:49 GMT
Title: Entendre, a Social Bot Detection Tool for Niche, Fringe, and Extreme Social Media
Authors: Pranav Venkatesh, Kami Vinton, Dhiraj Murthy, Kellen Sharp, Akaash Kolluri,
Abstract summary: We introduce Entendre, an open-access, scalable, and platform-agnostic bot detection framework. We exploit the idea that most social platforms share a generic template, where users can post content, approve content, and provide a bio. To demonstrate Entendre's effectiveness, we used it to explore the presence of bots among accounts posting racist content on the now-defunct right-wing platform Parler.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Abstract: Social bots-automated accounts that generate and spread content on social media-are exploiting vulnerabilities in these platforms to manipulate public perception and disseminate disinformation. This has prompted the development of public bot detection services; however, most of these services focus primarily on Twitter, leaving niche platforms vulnerable. Fringe social media platforms such as Parler, Gab, and Gettr often have minimal moderation, which facilitates the spread of hate speech and misinformation. To address this gap, we introduce Entendre, an open-access, scalable, and platform-agnostic bot detection framework. Entendre can process a labeled dataset from any social platform to produce a tailored bot detection model using a random forest classification approach, ensuring robust social bot detection. We exploit the idea that most social platforms share a generic template, where users can post content, approve content, and provide a bio (common data features). By emphasizing general data features over platform-specific ones, Entendre offers rapid extensibility at the expense of some accuracy. To demonstrate Entendre's effectiveness, we used it to explore the presence of bots among accounts posting racist content on the now-defunct right-wing platform Parler. We examined 233,000 posts from 38,379 unique users and found that 1,916 unique users (4.99%) exhibited bot-like behavior. Visualization techniques further revealed that these bots significantly impacted the network, amplifying influential rhetoric and hashtags (e.g., #qanon, #trump, #antilgbt). These preliminary findings underscore the need for tools like Entendre to monitor and assess bot activity across diverse platforms.

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