@inbook{185826f620d14c499093daa8487e1cff,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of online platforms such as online social networks (OSNs) and microblogging websites. These platforms play a major role in online communication and information sharing as they have become large-scale and real-time communication tools. This leads to massive user-generated data produced on a daily basis and via different forms that are rich sources of information and can be used in different tasks from marketing to research. On the negative side, online platforms have become widespread tools exploited by various malicious actors who orchestrate societal-significant threats leading to numerous security and privacy issues.",
author = "Hamidreza Alvari and Elham Shaabani and Paulo Shakarian",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-61431-7_1",
language = "English (US)",
series = "SpringerBriefs in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "1--7",
booktitle = "SpringerBriefs in Computer Science",
}