Benford’s Law Meets Machine Learning for Detecting Fake Twitter Followers
Author(s): Erika Lacson Originally published on Towards AI. An illustration of Benford’s 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. …
Benford’s + Chi-Square to Detect Anomalies
Author(s): Konstantin Pluzhnikov Originally published on Towards AI. Let’s 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. “Spatial anomaly” by Mike …