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Deeprobot: A Hybrid Deep Neural Network Model For Social Bot Detection Based On User Profile Data, Kadhim Hayawi, Sujith Mathew, Neethu Venugopal, Mohammad M. Masud, Pin Han Ho

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Use of online social networks (OSNs) undoubtedly brings the world closer. OSNs like Twitter provide a space for expressing one’s opinions in a public platform. This great potential is misused by the creation of bot accounts, which spread fake news and manipulate opinions. Hence, distinguishing genuine human accounts from bot accounts has become a pressing issue for researchers. In this paper, we propose a framework based on deep learning to classify Twitter accounts as either ‘human’ or ‘bot.’ We use the information from user profile metadata of the Twitter account like description, follower count and tweet count. We name the …