Ferrara, Emilio

The rise of social bots

Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2016) · Communications of the ACM

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 1,973

Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey

Goyal, P., & Ferrara, E. (2018) · Knowledge-Based Systems

Advanced Graph Neural NetworksGraph Theory and Algorithms

Cited by 1,801

Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion

Bessi, A., & Ferrara, E. (2016) · First Monday

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 993

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2017) · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 928

BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

Davis, C. A., Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2016) · Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web - WWW 16 Companion

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 909

Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

Ferrara, E. (2023) · Sci

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Cited by 875

Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election

Ferrara, E. (2017) · First Monday

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 524

Deep neural networks for bot detection

Kudugunta, S., & Ferrara, E. (2018) · Information Sciences

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 506

Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems

Stella, M., Ferrara, E., & De Domenico, M. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 492

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Yang, K., Varol, O., Davis, C. A., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2019) · Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 419

Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIHate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Cited by 282

Should ChatGPT be biased? Challenges and risks of bias in large language models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · First Monday

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIHate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Cited by 282

Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · First Monday

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIHate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Cited by 282

GenAI Against Humanity: Nefarious Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · Journal of Computational Social Science

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 266

What types of COVID-19 conspiracies are populated by Twitter bots?

Ferrara, E. (2020) · First Monday

Misinformation and Its ImpactsCommunication and COVID-19 Impact

Cited by 223

Factuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking

Augenstein, I., Baldwin, T., Cha, M., Chakraborty, T., Ciampaglia, G. L., Corney, D., DiResta, R., Ferrara, E., Hale, S., Halevy, A., et al. (2024) · Nature Machine Intelligence

Misinformation and Its ImpactsTopic Modeling

Cited by 187

Characterizing social media manipulation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Ferrara, E., Chang, H., Chen, E., Muric, G., & Patel, J. (2020) · First Monday

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 171

Botometer 101: social bot practicum for computational social scientists

Yang, K.-C., Ferrara, E., & Menczer, F. (2022) · Journal of Computational Social Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 159

Should ChatGPT Be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · SSRN Electronic Journal

Ethics and Social Impacts of AITopic Modeling

Cited by 133

Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation

Nizzoli, L., Tardelli, S., Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Tesconi, M., & Ferrara, E. (2020) · IEEE Access

Spam and Phishing DetectionCybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

Cited by 132

The Butterfly Effect in Artificial Intelligence Systems: Implications for AI Bias and Fairness

Ferrara, E. (2023) · Machine Learning with Applications

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Cited by 129

Who Falls for Online Political Manipulation?

Badawy, A., Lerman, K., & Ferrara, E. (2019) · Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 105

Social bot detection in the age of ChatGPT: Challenges and opportunities

Ferrara, E. (2023) · First Monday

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 84

Auditing Algorithmic Bias on Twitter

Bartley, N., Abeliuk, A., Ferrara, E., & Lerman, K. (2021) · 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 62