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

Patrick Wang (1) , Rafael Angarita (1) , Ilaria Renna (1)

1 ISEP - Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris

Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public exposure. 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.

Mots clés: World Wide Web; Social networks; Internet communications tools; Human-centered computing; Social bots; Social media; Deceptive information; Semantic Web

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Automatique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Patrick Wang, Rafael Angarita, Ilaria Renna. Is this the Era of Misinformation yet? Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses. The 2018 Web Conference Companion, Mar 2018, Lyon, France. ⟨10.1145/3184558.3191610⟩. ⟨hal-01722413⟩