TY - GEN
T1 - Typification of Impersonated Accounts on Instagram
AU - Zarei, Koosha
AU - Farahbakhsh, Reza
AU - Crespi, Noel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Fake accounts and Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are turning difficulties for society. This has attended to an increasing interest in detecting fake profiles and investigating their behaviours. Questions like who are impersonators? what are their characteristics? and are they bots? will arise. To answer, we begin this research by collecting data from three important communities on Instagram including 'Politician', 'News agency', and 'Sports star'. Inside each community, four verified top accounts are picked. Based on the users who reacted to their published posts, we detect 4K impersonators [1]. Then we employed well-known clustering methods to distribute impersonators into separated clusters to observe obscure behaviours and unusual profile characteristics. We also studied the cross-group analysis of clusters inside each community to explore engagements. Finally, we conclude the study by providing a complete investigation of the bot-like cluster.
AB - Fake accounts and Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are turning difficulties for society. This has attended to an increasing interest in detecting fake profiles and investigating their behaviours. Questions like who are impersonators? what are their characteristics? and are they bots? will arise. To answer, we begin this research by collecting data from three important communities on Instagram including 'Politician', 'News agency', and 'Sports star'. Inside each community, four verified top accounts are picked. Based on the users who reacted to their published posts, we detect 4K impersonators [1]. Then we employed well-known clustering methods to distribute impersonators into separated clusters to observe obscure behaviours and unusual profile characteristics. We also studied the cross-group analysis of clusters inside each community to explore engagements. Finally, we conclude the study by providing a complete investigation of the bot-like cluster.
KW - Bot Detection
KW - Fake Profile
KW - Impersonation
KW - Instagram
KW - Social Media
KW - Unsupervised Clustering
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85079097157
U2 - 10.1109/IPCCC47392.2019.8958763
DO - 10.1109/IPCCC47392.2019.8958763
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079097157
T3 - 2019 IEEE 38th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2019
BT - 2019 IEEE 38th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 38th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2019
Y2 - 29 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -