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Detection and Characterization of Coordinated Online Behavior: A Survey

arXiv 2408.01257 ↗First posted 2 Aug 2024cs.SI cs.AI cs.CYcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

Coordination is a fundamental aspect of life. The advent of social media has made it integral also to online human interactions, such as those that characterize thriving online communities and social movements. At the same time, coordination is also core to effective disinformation, manipulation, and hate campaigns. This survey collects, categorizes, and critically discusses the body of work produced as a result of the growing interest on coordinated online behavior. We reconcile industry and academic definitions, propose a comprehensive framework to study coordinated online behavior, and review and critically discuss the existing detection and characterization methods. Our analysis identifies open challenges and promising directions of research, serving as a guide for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in understanding and addressing the complexities inherent to online coordination. We also provide an interactive companion website for exploring the surveyed literature.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 19 of its 65 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Aug 2024.

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References · 19

  1. 2020Identifying Coordinated Accounts on Social Media through Hidden Influence and Group Behaviourscited by 46
  2. 2019Community Detection in Multiplex Networkscited by 22
  3. 2020Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Electioncited by 15
  4. 2020On the Detection of Disinformation Campaign Activity with Network Analysiscited by 14
  5. 2023Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twittercited by 13
  6. 2020Unveiling Coordinated Groups Behind White Helmets Disinformationcited by 10
  7. 2021A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Linkscited by 10
  8. 2021Coordinating Narratives and the Capitol Riots on Parlercited by 10
  9. 2023Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up To the US Capitol Attackcited by 9
  10. 2021From Reddit to Wall Street: The role of committed minorities in financial collective actioncited by 7
  11. 2023Evidence of Inter-state Coordination amongst State-backed Information Operationscited by 7
  12. 2018Cashtag piggybacking: uncovering spam and bot activity in stock microblogs on Twittercited by 6
7 more
  1. 2021Trend Alert: How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Electioncited by 5
  2. 2024Unsupervised detection of coordinated information operations in the wildcited by 4
  3. 2024Coordinated Activity Modulates the Behavior and Emotions of Organic Users: A Case Study on Tweets about the Gaza Conflictcited by 4
  4. 2022From Curious Hashtags to Polarized Effect: Profiling Coordinated Actions in Indonesian Twitter Discoursecited by 3
  5. 2023The influence of coordinated behavior on toxicitycited by 2
  6. 2023Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social mediacited by 2
  7. 2024Post-hoc evaluation of nodes influence in information cascades: the case of coordinated accountscited by 2

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 1; 2025: 3; 2026: 2.

6 papers.

  1. 2024IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operationscited by 4
  2. 2025Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategiescited by 0
  3. 2025Quantifying Feature Importance for Online Content Moderationcited by 0
  4. 2025Bot Meets Shortcut: How Can LLMs Aid in Handling Unknown Invariance OOD Scenarios?cited by 0
  5. 2026Generative AI and Digital Ecosystem Resilience: A Proactive Lifecycle-Based Surveycited by 0
  6. 2026IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scalecited by 0