Illicit Promotion on Twitter

arXiv:2404.07797v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we present an extensive study of the promotion of illicit goods and services on Twitter, a popular online social network(OSN). This study is made possible through the design and implementation of multiple novel tools for detecting and analyzing illicit promotion activities as well as their underlying campaigns. As the results, we observe that illicit promotion is prevalent on Twitter, along with noticeable existence on other three popular OSNs including Youtube, Facebook, and …

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