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Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems
Malicious crowdsourcing forums are gaining traction as sources of spreading
misinformation online, but are limited by the costs of hiring and managing
human workers. In this paper, we identify a new class of attacks that leverage
deep learning language models (Recurrent Neural Networks or RNNs) to automate
the generation of fake online reviews for products and services. Not only are
these attacks cheap and therefore more scalable, but they can control rate of
content output to eliminate the signature burstiness that makes crowdsourced
campaigns easy to detect.
Using Yelp reviews as an example platform, we show how a two phased review
generation and customization attack can produce reviews that are
indistinguishable by state-of-the-art statistical detectors. We conduct a
survey-based user study to show these reviews not only evade human detection,
but also score high on "usefulness" metrics by users. Finally, we develop novel
automated defenses against these attacks, by leveraging the lossy
transformation introduced by the RNN training and generation cycle. We consider
countermeasures against our mechanisms, show that they produce unattractive
cost-benefit tradeoffs for attackers, and that they can be further curtailed by
simple constraints imposed by online service providers
Analysis of adversarial attacks against CNN-based image forgery detectors
With the ubiquitous diffusion of social networks, images are becoming a
dominant and powerful communication channel. Not surprisingly, they are also
increasingly subject to manipulations aimed at distorting information and
spreading fake news. In recent years, the scientific community has devoted
major efforts to contrast this menace, and many image forgery detectors have
been proposed. Currently, due to the success of deep learning in many
multimedia processing tasks, there is high interest towards CNN-based
detectors, and early results are already very promising. Recent studies in
computer vision, however, have shown CNNs to be highly vulnerable to
adversarial attacks, small perturbations of the input data which drive the
network towards erroneous classification. In this paper we analyze the
vulnerability of CNN-based image forensics methods to adversarial attacks,
considering several detectors and several types of attack, and testing
performance on a wide range of common manipulations, both easily and hardly
detectable
Satirical News Detection and Analysis using Attention Mechanism and Linguistic Features
Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially
deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone
can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news.
We observe that satirical cues are often reflected in certain paragraphs rather
than the whole document. Existing works only consider document-level features
to detect the satire, which could be limited. We consider paragraph-level
linguistic features to unveil the satire by incorporating neural network and
attention mechanism. We investigate the difference between paragraph-level
features and document-level features, and analyze them on a large satirical
news dataset. The evaluation shows that the proposed model detects satirical
news effectively and reveals what features are important at which level.Comment: EMNLP 2017, 11 page
Deep Learning for User Comment Moderation
Experimenting with a new dataset of 1.6M user comments from a Greek news
portal and existing datasets of English Wikipedia comments, we show that an RNN
outperforms the previous state of the art in moderation. A deep,
classification-specific attention mechanism improves further the overall
performance of the RNN. We also compare against a CNN and a word-list baseline,
considering both fully automatic and semi-automatic moderation
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