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The Structural Influence of Low-Credibility Narratives During the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
This work examines the structural influence of low-credibility narratives and the comparative role of automated accounts (bots) versus human users on social media platforms. To mor…
The Architects of Narrative Evolution: Actor Interventions Across the SAGES Framework in Information Campaigns
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Yukai Zeng, Muthiah Ponmani
Narratives in digital spaces are not merely organic phenomena. They are strategically shaped by a range of actors to influence public perception, behavior, and sociopolitical outco…
Simulating Misinformation Vulnerabilities With Agent Personas
David Farr, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Stephen Prochaska +2
Disinformation campaigns can distort public perception and destabilize institutions. Understanding how different populations respond to information is crucial for designing effecti…
Are LLM-Powered Social Media Bots Realistic?
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become more sophisticated, there is a possibility to harness LLMs to power social media bots. This work investigates the realism of generating LLM-P…
Star Network Motifs on X during COVID-19
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Divyaansh Sinha, Kathleen M. Carley
Social network motifs are recurring patterns of small subgraphs that indicate fundamental patterns of social communication. In this work, we study the simple star network motifs th…
Appeal and Scope of Misinformation Spread by AI Agents and Humans
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
This work examines the influence of misinformation and the role of AI agents, called bots, on social network platforms. To quantify the impact of misinformation, it proposes two ne…
Navigating Decentralized Online Social Networks: An Overview of Technical and Societal Challenges in Architectural Choices
Ujun Jeong, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley +1
Decentralized online social networks have evolved from experimental stages to operating at unprecedented scale, with broader adoption and more active use than ever before. Platform…
Building Bridges between Users and Content across Multiple Platforms during Natural Disasters
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain J. Cruickshank, David Farr
Social media is a primary medium for information diffusion during natural disasters. The social media ecosystem has been used to identify destruction, analyze opinions and organize…
Social Cyber Geographical Worldwide Inventory of Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social Cyber Geography is the space in the digital cyber realm that is produced through social relations. Communication in the social media ecosystem happens not only because of hu…
Automated versus Human Engagement: Mapping Cognitive Bias Triggers in Online Discourse
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
In the digital environment, human attention is frequently guided by cognitive heuristics rather than deliberate evaluation. Since low-credibility narratives often lack substantive…
SMI-5: Five Dimensions of Social Media Interaction for Platform (De)Centralization
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley
Web 3.0 focuses on the decentralization of the internet and creating a system of interconnected and independent computers for improved privacy and security. We extend the idea of t…
Cyborgs for strategic communication on social media
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Dawn C. Robertson, Kathleen M. Carley
Social media platforms are a key ground of information consumption and dissemination. Key figures like politicians, celebrities and activists have leveraged on its wide user base f…
Deflating the Chinese Balloon: Types of Twitter Bots in US-China balloon incident
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
As digitalization increases, countries employ digital diplomacy, harnessing digital resources to project their desired image. Digital diplomacy also encompasses the interactivity o…
Assembling a Multi-Platform Ensemble Social Bot Detector with Applications to US 2020 Elections
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Bots have been in the spotlight for many social media studies, for they have been observed to be participating in the manipulation of information and opinions on social media. Thes…
Tracking China's cross-strait bot networks against Taiwan
Charity S. Jacobs, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
The cross-strait relationship between China and Taiwan is marked by increasing hostility around potential reunification. We analyze an unattributed bot network and how repeater bot…
Simulation of Stance Perturbations
Peter Carragher, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
In this work, we analyze the circumstances under which social influence operations are likely to succeed. These circumstances include the selection of Confederate agents to execute…
Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda
Ahmad Diab, Bolor-Erdene Jagdagdorj, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng +2
White supremacist extremist groups are a significant domestic terror threat in many Western nations. These groups harness the Internet to spread their ideology via online platforms…
A Combined Synchronization Index for Grassroots Activism on Social Media
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social media has provided a citizen voice, giving rise to grassroots collective action, where users deploy a concerted effort to disseminate online narratives and even carry out of…
BotBuster: Multi-platform Bot Detection Using A Mixture of Experts
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Despite rapid development, current bot detection models still face challenges in dealing with incomplete data and cross-platform applications. In this paper, we propose BotBuster,…
From Curious Hashtags to Polarized Effect: Profiling Coordinated Actions in Indonesian Twitter Discourse
Adya Danaditya, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Coordinated campaigns in the digital realm have become an increasingly important area of study due to their potential to cause political polarization and threats to security throug…
Coordinated through aWeb of Images: Analysis of Image-based Influence Operations from China, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, J. D. Moffitt, Kathleen M. Carley
State-sponsored online influence operations typically consist of coordinated accounts exploiting the online space to influence public opinion. Accounts associated with these operat…
Coordinating Narratives and the Capitol Riots on Parler
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain Cruickshank, Kathleen M. Carley
Coordinated disinformation campaigns are used to influence social media users, potentially leading to offline violence. In this study, we introduce a general methodology to uncover…
A Synchronized Action Framework for Responsible Detection of Coordination on Social Media
Thomas Magelinski, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
The study of coordinated manipulation of conversations on social media has become more prevalent as social media's role in amplifying misinformation, hate, and polarization has com…
Pro or Anti? A Social Influence Model of Online Stance Flipping
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen Carley
Social influence characterizes the change of an individual's stances in a complex social environment towards a topic. Two factors often govern the influence of stances in an online…