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FATe of Bots: Ethical Considerations of Social Bot Detection
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Ethan Pan, Michael Miller Yoder +1
A growing suite of research illustrates the negative impact of social media bots in amplifying harmful information with widespread social implications. Social bot detection algorit…
BotSim: Mitigating The Formation Of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Societies can become a conspiratorial society where there is a majority of humans that believe, and therefore spread, conspiracy theories. Artificial intelligence gave rise to soci…
Local News Hijacking: A Review of International Instances
Christine Sowa Lepird, Kathleen M. Carley
In the rise of the digital era, it's easier than ever to create nefarious websites to spread misinformation. A more recent phenomenon in the United States has been the creation of…
Trends of Pink Slime Journalism Advertisement Expenditure and Spread on Facebook from 2019-2024
Christine Sowa Lepird, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Pink slime journalism is a practice where news outlets publish low-quality or inflammatory partisan articles, claiming to be local news networks. This paper examines the spread of…
AuraSight: Generating Realistic Social Media Data
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Bianca N. Y. Kang, Kathleen M. Carley
This document details the narrative and technical design behind the process of generating a quasi-realistic set X data for a fictional multi-day pop culture episode (AuraSight). So…
Public support for misinformation interventions depends on perceived fairness, effectiveness, and intrusiveness
Catherine King, Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley
The proliferation of misinformation on social media has concerning possible consequences, such as the degradation of democratic norms. While recent research on countering misinform…
The Dual Personas of Social Media Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social media bots are AI agents that participate in online conversations. Most studies focus on the general bot and the malicious nature of these agents. However, bots have many di…
What is a Social Media Bot? A Global Comparison of Bot and Human Characteristics
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Chatter on social media is 20% bots and 80% humans. Chatter by bots and humans is consistently different: bots tend to use linguistic cues that can be easily automated while humans…
Moral and emotional influences on attitude stability towards COVID-19 vaccines on social media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou +1
Effective public health messaging benefits from understanding antecedents to unstable attitudes that are more likely to be influenced. This work investigates the relationship betwe…
An Exploratory Analysis of COVID Bot vs Human Disinformation Dissemination stemming from the Disinformation Dozen on Telegram
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Ian Kloo, Kathleen M. Carley
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2021 led to a worldwide health crisis that was accompanied by an infodemic. A group of 12 social media personalities, dubbed the ``Disinformation Dozen", w…