Fake online pharmacies have become increasingly pervasive, constituting over 90% of online pharmacy websites. There is a need for fake website detection techniques capable of identifying fake online pharmacy websites with a high degree of accuracy. In this study, we compared several well-known link-based detection techniques on a large-scale test bed with the hyperlink graph encompassing over 8...

Fake content represents an important portion of those files shared in BitTorrent. In this paper we conduct a large scale measurement study in order to analyse the fake content publishing phenomenon in the BitTorrent Ecosystem. Our results reveal that a few tens of users are responsible for 90% of the fake content. Furthermore, more than 99% of the analysed fake files are linked to either malwar...

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for computational tools able to provide insights into the reliability of online content. In this paper, we focus on the automatic identification of fake content in online...

A fake lens space is an orbit space of a free action of a finite cyclic group on a sphere and as such it is a generalization of a classical lens space. The invariants of fake lens spaces described here are their homotopy groups, homology groups, a certain k-invariant, the Reidemeister torsion, the ρ-invariant and certain splitting invariants. We survey the classification of fake lens spaces whi...

The 2016 US Presidential Election brought considerable attention to the phenomenon of “fake news”: entirely fabricated and often partisan content that is presented as is from a legitimate source. In this talk, I will explore two outstanding questions about fake news: Who falls for it, and what can be done to fight it? It is typically assumed that people believe fake news stories that are consis...

This research examines how activists mobilise against fake hate profiles on Facebook. Based on six months of participant observation, the article demonstrates how Danish Facebook users organised to combat fictitious Muslim profiles that spurred hatred against ethnic minorities. The article concludes that crowdsourced action by Facebook users is insufficient as a form of sustainable resistance a...

Research Population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution 2004) to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer. We have established a large retrospective cohort study of mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry. Each job category in this population has distinct exposure patterns: drivers are exposed directly to traffic; dockworkers are exposed to trucks in t...

Camouflaging data by generating fake information is a wellknown obfuscation technique for protecting data privacy. The effectiveness of this technique in protecting users’ privacy highly depends on the resemblance of fake information to reality, such that an adversary cannot easily filter such fake information out. In this paper, we focus on a very sensitive and increasingly exposed type of dat...

Corneille et al. (2020) found that repetition increases judgments statements have been used as fake news on social media. They also truth and decreases falsehood (i.e., two instantiations of the truth-by-repetition effect). These results supported an ecological explanation effect better than alternative accounts. However, first author present article unsuspected programming issues in al.’s expe...