Survey on Astroturfing Detection and Analysis from an Information Technology Perspective

Table 1

Comparison of various suspicious online behaviors.

	Application	Participant	Time	Visual	Scale
Spam	E-mail and SMS	Artificial intelligence	No	No	Huge
Fake review	B2C and C2C e-commerce	Artificial intelligence or individual	No	Yes	No
Spam (social)	Social network	Artificial intelligence or individual	No	Yes	No
Link farming	Search engine and social contact	Artificial intelligence or individual	Long time	No	—
Astroturfing	B2C and C2C e-commerce	Artificial intelligence or individual	Short time	Yes	Huge