Identifying Content Polluters in Social Streams: A Study on Harmful Media Influence
Explore techniques to detect and prevent harmful content polluters in social networks, focusing on identifying trolls and spammers on platforms like Twitter. The project aims to create a database of potential polluters and observe their behavior to mitigate their impact ethically.
Identifying Content Polluters in Social Streams: A Study on Harmful Media Influence
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Five months with the Devils IdentifyingContent Polluters in Social Streams Radu Popescu
Why did I choose this project? • The Intelligent Web course was my favourite course in both content and assignment tasks • I am really excited about Social Networks and would like to help improve their use • I have strong coding skills especially in the Web Technologies languages
Background literature • Kyumin Lee, Brian David Eoff, James Caverlee. 2011 Seven Months with the Devils: A Long-Term Study of Content Polluters on Twitter • Benevenuto, F.; Magno, G.; Rodrigues, T.; and Almeida, V. 2010. Detecting spammers on Twitter. • Lee, K.; Caverlee, J.; and Webb, S. 2010. Uncovering Social Spammers: Social Honeypots + Machine Learning
The research question • How would you go about identifying social media content that is harmful to the pervasiveness of important topics? • How could you prevent identified problem users from further polluting the social streams? • How can it be implemented in an ethical way and adaptable to various type of polluters (i.e. trolls, spammers)
How would you solve it • Identify Content polluters in Social Streams, mainly Twitter • Use techniques such as setting up honey pots or analysing user behaviour. • Create a database of identified potential polluters profiles • Follow them for a period of time observing their behaviour and collecting further information • Attempt to discourage polluting behaviour
Your ideal team • Interest in Web Technologies and eager user of Social Networks • Good Writing skills • Good Coding skills