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cs.CY2026

The Invisible Risks of AI-Generated Health Information

Matthew R. DeVerna, Harry Yaojun Yan, Kai-Cheng Yang +1

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems now summarize health-related search results, answer medical questions, and offer guidance people once sought from clinicians. These…

cs.CY20202 cited

How Twitter Data Sampling Biases U.S. Voter Behavior Characterizations

Kai-Cheng Yang, Pik-Mai Hui, Filippo Menczer

Online social media are key platforms for the public to discuss political issues. As a result, researchers have used data from these platforms to analyze public opinions and foreca…

cs.CY2020

Prevalence of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Kai-Cheng Yang, Christopher Torres-Lugo, Filippo Menczer

As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, concerns regarding the spreading of misinformation about it are also growing. Here we estimate the prevalence of links to low-cre…

cs.CY2019

Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection

Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Pik-Mai Hui +1

Efficient and reliable social bot classification is crucial for detecting information manipulation on social media. Despite rapid development, state-of-the-art bot detection models…

cs.CY2019

Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections

Kai-Cheng Yang, Pik-Mai Hui, Filippo Menczer

It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant impact on the outcomes of national events. It is important to raise public awareness about the threat of bo…

cs.CY2019417 cited

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis +3

The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots -- automated or sem…