A Feature-Driven Approach for Identifying Pathogenic Social Media\n Accounts
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2020

Over the past few years, we have observed different media outlets' attempts\nto shift public opinion by framing information to support a narrative that\nfacilitate their goals. Malicious users referred to as "pathogenic social\nmedia" (PSM) accounts are more likely to amplify this phenomena by spreading\nmisinformation to viral proportions. Understanding the spread of misinformation\nfrom account-level perspective is thus a pressing problem. In this work, we aim\nto present a feature-driven appr