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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
May. 04, 2022
Zignal Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Alex Smith, Chadron, NE (US);
Andras Benke, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathan R Dodson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Fenchel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Loretta Jimenez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Kramer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fabien Vives, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Beaugh, Kensington, CA (US);
Felix Medina Wong, Fremont, CA (US);
Melinda Chu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Miller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Zafarani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for detecting interactive network of automated accounts, the interactive network of automated accounts comprising a plurality of automated accounts posting to a social media channel, the system comprising: an ingestion engine operated by a computational device for connecting to the social media channel and receiving a plurality of social media postings from a plurality of posting entities; a bot model operated by a computational device for determining whether at least one posting entity is a suspected bot; and a computer network for communication between said computational devices.