Is this the Era of Misinformation yet? Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses

Abstract

Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public expo- sure. Anyone, even social bots, can reach out to a vast community and expose one’s opinion. But what happens when fake news is (un)intentionally spread within a social media? This paper reviews techniques that can be used to fabricate fake news and depicts a scenario where social bots evolve in a fully semantic Web to infest social media with automatically generated deceptive information.

Publication
In WWW 18 Companion: The 2018 Web Conference Companion, April 23–27, 2018, Lyon, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https: //doi.org/10.11453184558.3191610