Survey on Fake Profile Detection on Social Sites by Using Machine Learning Algorithm
Abstract
To avoid the spam message, malicious and cyber bullies activities which are mostly done by the fake profile. These activities challenge the privacy policies of the social network communities. These fake profiles are responsible for spread false information on social communities. To identify the fake profile, duplicate, spam and bots account there is much research work done in this area. By using a machine-learning algorithm, most of the fake accounts detected successfully. This paper represents the review of Fake Profile Detection on Social Site by Using Machine Learning.
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Most detection methods apply machine learning algorithms on large amounts of data generated from social networking sites.
“Most of them apply the machine learning algorithms on huge amounts of data generated from such social sites20.”
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- Authors
- Patel, K., Agrahari, S., & Srivastava, S.
- Affiliations
- Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (IN)
- ORCID
- Patel, Kumud
- Venue
- 2020 8th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2020-06
- Pages
- 1236-1240
- OpenAlex
- W3090519466
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.84
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Keywords
- fake profile detection, social media, spam, bot accounts, cyberbullying, misinformation, privacy
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