Benfordβs Law Meets Machine Learning for Detecting Fake Twitter Followers
Author(s): Erika Lacson Originally published on Towards AI. An illustration of Benfordβs Distribution, Photo by Author. In the expansive digital landscape of social media, user authenticity is a paramount concern. As platforms like Twitter grow, so does the proliferation of fake accounts. …
Benfordβs + Chi-Square to Detect Anomalies
Author(s): Konstantin Pluzhnikov Originally published on Towards AI. Letβs calculate some statistics to gain confidence in whether there is something suspicious in the data or not This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. βSpatial anomalyβ by Mike …