1. Copyright (C) Daniyal Shahrokhian
All Rights Reserved
Fighting Social Media Manipulation
with Machine Learning
Ebba Elhmoud
Machine Learning Team Lead
2. Forms of Digital Manipulation
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Vaccines are not associated with autism:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814559
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Scientific evidence does not support the widely held belief that swimming
shortly after eating induces stomach cramps:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context
=ijare
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The conference sought "neither to deny nor prove the Holocaust... [but]
to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their
opinions in freedom about a historical issue:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8215911
5. Weaponization of Social Media
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanm
ar-facebook-genocide.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910
https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2016/07/25/the
-lisa-case-germany-as-a-target-of-russian-
disinformation/index.html
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8. Forms of Digital Manipulation
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Donara Barojan, Head of Operations at Astroscreen
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Trolling
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Astroturfing
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Commercial bots
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Political bots
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Sockpuppet accounts
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Wikipedia edits
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Google/YouTube SEO
manipulation
● Inauthentic social media
pages
● Inauthentic social media
groups
● Impersonating users
● Impersonating/imitating
media outlets
● Inauthentic social media
ads
![Forms of Digital Manipulation
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Vaccines are not associated with autism:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814559
●
Scientific evidence does not support the widely held belief that swimming
shortly after eating induces stomach cramps:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context
=ijare
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The conference sought "neither to deny nor prove the Holocaust... [but]
to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their
opinions in freedom about a historical issue:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8215911](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)