2023-01-05: Using Social Media to Identifying Deceptive Advertisements to Counter Human Smuggling Project Funded by CCI
We are delighted to receive funding to work on a research project to develop new ways to counter human smuggling by identifying deceptive posts on social media sites. This is a joint work collaboration between Dr. Faryaneh Poursardar , Dr. Vikas Ashok from ODU CS, and Dr. Erika Frydenlund from VMASC and will support one graduate student for one year Faryaneh Poursardar, Vikas Ashok, and Erika Frydenlund, From Gap to Gain: Counter Human Smuggling by Identifying Deceptive Advertisements in Social Media, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) - Securing Interaction between Humans and Machines, 12/2022 – 12/2023, $60,000 Human smuggling across borders is one of the major global concerns affecting many countries across the world, including the United States. Research shows that smugglers are heavily relying on social media to solicit migrants attempting to cross into the US through deceptive advertisements promising safe and guaranteed means of crossing the border. Deceptiv...