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The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook
Kai-Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Pik-Mai Hui +4
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the…
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…
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
Diogo Pacheco, Pik-Mai Hui, Christopher Torres-Lugo +3
Coordinated campaigns are used to influence and manipulate social media platforms and their users, a critical challenge to the free exchange of information online. Here we introduc…
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…
Massive Multi-Agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem
Jim Blythe, John Bollenbacher, Di Huang +12
Simulating and predicting planetary-scale techno-social systems poses heavy computational and modeling challenges. The DARPA SocialSim program set the challenge to model the evolut…
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…