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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01503125
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Unmasking Fake Social Network Accounts with Explainable Intelligence

Author 1: Eman Alnagi
Author 2: Ashraf Ahmad
Author 3: Qasem Abu Al-Haija
Author 4: Abdullah Aref

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 15 Issue 3, 2024.

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Abstract: The recent global social network platforms have intertwined a web connecting people universally, encouraging unprecedented social interactions and information exchange. However, this digital connectivity has also spawned the growth of fake social media accounts used for mass spamming and targeted attacks on certain accounts or sites. In response, carefully con-structed artificial intelligence (AI) models have been used across numerous digital domains as a defense against these dishonest accounts. However, clear articulation and validation are required to integrate these AI models into security and commerce. This study navigates this crucial turning point by using Explainable AI’s SHAP technique to explain the results of an XGBoost model painstakingly trained on a pair of datasets collected from Instagram and Twitter. These outcomes are painstakingly inspected, assessed, and benchmarked against traditional feature selection techniques using SHAP. This analysis comes to a head in a demonstrative discourse demonstrating SHAP’s suitability as a reliable explainable AI (XAI) for this crucial goal.

Keywords: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP); feature selection; fake accounts detection; social media

Eman Alnagi, Ashraf Ahmad, Qasem Abu Al-Haija and Abdullah Aref, “Unmasking Fake Social Network Accounts with Explainable Intelligence” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 15(3), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01503125

@article{Alnagi2024,
title = {Unmasking Fake Social Network Accounts with Explainable Intelligence},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01503125},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01503125},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {15},
number = {3},
author = {Eman Alnagi and Ashraf Ahmad and Qasem Abu Al-Haija and Abdullah Aref}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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