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20122023
most citedIts All in a Name: Detecting and Labeling Bots by Their Name

69 citations · 224 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.IR20242 cited

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…

cs.CY20241 cited

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…

cs.SI20246 cited

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…

cs.SI202412 cited

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…

cs.SI20241 cited

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…

cs.SI202312 cited

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…