The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race
The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race
Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time, we extensively study this novel phenomenon on Twitter and we provide quantitative evidence that a paradigm-shift exists in spambot design. First, we …