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We offer a trust-based framework to detect potentially damaging users in social networks. This method captures human and community trust within the network to identify users who are likely to cause harm. Human and community-based frameworks offer an advantage over other approaches because trust and credibility are hard to fake as they are built over time. Furthermore, given that the metric represents human trust with evidence, it serves as an excellent label to inform users of potential damage associated with another account. We illustrate the proposed metric with Twitter data, distinguishing potentially damaging users from both trustworthy users and those who lack trustworthiness but have a low chance of causing harm.
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This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under No. 1547411 and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (Award Number 2017-67003-26057) via an interagency partnership between USDA-NIFA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the research program Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems.
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Rittichier, K.J., Kaur, D., Uslu, S., Durresi, A. (2022). A Trust-Based Tool for Detecting Potentially Damaging Users in Social Networks. In: Barolli, L., Chen, HC., Enokido, T. (eds) Advances in Networked-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84913-9_9
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