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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…
Multimodal LLMs Struggle with Basic Visual Network Analysis: a VNA Benchmark
Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
We evaluate the zero-shot ability of GPT-4 and LLaVa to perform simple Visual Network Analysis (VNA) tasks on small-scale graphs. We evaluate the Vision Language Models (VLMs) on 5…
Blended Bots: Infiltration through Identity Deception on Social Media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Bots are automated social media users that can be used to amplify (mis)information and sow harmful discourse. In order to effectively influence users, bots can be generated to repr…
Bridging Social Media and Search Engines: Dredge Words and the Detection of Unreliable Domains
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
Proactive content moderation requires platforms to rapidly and continuously evaluate the credibility of websites. Leveraging the direct and indirect paths users follow to unreliabl…
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…
Why do people think liberals drink lattes? How social media afforded self-presentation can shape subjective social sorting
Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley, Kenneth Joseph
Social sorting, the alignment of social identities, affiliations, and/or preferences with partisan groups, can increase in-party attachment and decrease out-party tolerance. We pro…
Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-based Interventions
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
The proliferation of unreliable news domains on the internet has had wide-reaching negative impacts on society. We introduce and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing traffic to…
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…
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…
Detection and Discovery of Misinformation Sources using Attributed Webgraphs
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
Website reliability labels underpin almost all research in misinformation detection. However, misinformation sources often exhibit transient behavior, which makes many such labeled…