Evolution of Malicious Social Bot Detection: From Individual Profiling to Group Analysis and Beyond

The rise of online social platforms has enhanced connectivity and access to information. Still, it has also enabled the proliferation of malicious social bots that threaten platform security and disrupt social order. In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for defining and classifying malici...

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Published in:	Journal of Social Computing
Main Authors:	Yina Liu, Shuai Xu, Yicong Li, Shuo Yu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Tsinghua University Press 2025-09-01
Subjects:	malicious social bots bot detection social network large language model (llm) driven bots
Online Access:	https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/JSC.2025.0017