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Is this the Era of Misinformation yet: Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses

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Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public exposure. Anyone, even social bots, can reach out to a vast community and expose one's opinion. But what happens when fake news is (un)intentionally spread within a social media This paper reviews techniques that can be used to fabricate fake news and depicts a scenario where social bots evolve in a fully semantic Web to infest social media with automatically generated deceptive information.

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          WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018
          April 2018
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