/fakeaccountsurge

A very simple analysis on determining the factors that contributed to an individual being victim of having fake accounts.

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[Possible] Factors for the Recent Surge of Fake Accounts

In the morning of June 07, 2020, Facebook users woke up to find fake profiles resembling themselves. Some of whom had little to no friends in it, while some fake profiles imitated the personalities of the real profiles they copied. The reality was that everyone could've been a victim. People were clueless as to how this happened. This very simple and minute study sought to determine the correlation between some common political behaviors that led to these individuals to become a victim of these fake profiles.

Updates

June 10, 2020:

  • Tweaked hyperparameters and test-set size, increased accuracy of test to 60%.
  • Added new test case