An Efficient Method for Detection of Fake Accounts on the Instagram Platform

Abstract

In recent years, social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook have gradually become important ways to disseminate information. One of these social platforms that have attracted more attention in past years is Instagram. Instagram has widely used for sharing photos and videos and is profitable for celebrities, businesses, and people with a considerable number of followers. In the meantime, this high profit made this platform prone to be the potential place to be used for malicious activities. One of the essential malicious activities in the Instagram platform is fake accounts. However, in this paper, an efficient method for identifying Instagram fake accounts is proposed. In the presented model. First, a dataset of legitimate and fake accounts is created. Then, the collected dataset has been used as input of the bagging classifier to classify fake users on the dataset. Furthermore, the proposed method compared to the five well-known machine-learning classifiers in terms of classification accuracy to better evaluate effectiveness of the method. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than other considered algorithms and correctly classified over 98% of the accounts with a low error rate.

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