Lynnette Hui Xian Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 296575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynnette Hui Xian Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynnette Hui Xian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG L H X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2740-7818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
BotSim
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 social media bots that can spread conspiracies in an automated fashion.Currently, organizations combat the spread of conspiracies through manual fact-checking processes and the dissemination of counter-narratives.However, the effects of harnessing the same automation to crea…
Modes of toxic behavior and game design considerations in online multiplayer games
Online multiplayer games like League of Legends, Counter Strike, and Roblox create experiences through community interactions between players. These games provide players with the ability to interact with each other through multiple modes of communication: text, image, audio, and behavioral signals. However, the presence of such features also opens a Pandora’s box to toxic behavior, such as hate speech, racism, and gaming-specific behaviors like …
Cyborgs for strategic communication on social media
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 for strategic communication. Strategic communications, or StratCom, is the deliberate act of information creation and distribution. Its techniques are used by key figures for establishing brand and amplifying messages. Automated scripts are used on top of personal touch…
Analyzing digital propaganda and conflict rhetoric
The dissemination of disinformation has become a formidable weapon, with nation-states exploiting social media platforms to engineer narratives favorable to their geopolitical interests. This study delved into Russia’s orchestrated disinformation campaign, in three times periods of the 2022 Russian-Ukraine War: its incursion, its midpoint and the Ukrainian Kherson counteroffensive. This period is marked by a sophisticated blend of bot-driven stra…
Assembling a multi-platform ensemble social bot detector with applications to US 2020 elections
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. These studies analyzed the activity and influence of bots in a variety of contexts: elections, protests, health communication and so forth. Prior to this analyzes is the identification of bot accounts to segregate the class of social media users. In this work, we propose an…
Non-credibility scores
Pink slime news sites are politically polarized Web sites controlled by partisan national organizations that masquerade as local news. Instead of authentic community reporting, these sites rely on automated algorithms and APIs to fill in news articles between their politically charged messaging aimed at influencing votes. Over 1,000 of these sites have been identified, and the creator of the largest pink slime organization, Metric Media, has a go…
What News Is Shared Where and How
News journalism has evolved from traditional print media to social media, with a large proportion of readers consuming their news via digital means. Through an analysis of over 1.3 million posts across three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) pertaining to the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections, this analysis examines the difference in sharing patterns for four types of news sites—Real News, Local News, Low Credibility News, and Pink Sli…
Popping the hood on Chinese balloons
In this study, we examined online conversations on Twitter about a Chinese balloon spotted over U.S. airspace in January 2023. We investigated the conversations between U.S.-based, China-based and accounts from the rest of the world. We also studied the difference between bots and human accounts within these conversations. We found that U.S.-based accounts referred to the balloon as a surveillance balloon, China-based accounts focused on the shoo…
A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media
Social media has provided a citizen voice, giving rise to grassroots collective action, where users deploy a concerted effort to disseminate online narratives and even carry out offline protests. Sometimes these collective action are aided by inorganic synchronization, which arise from bot actors. It is thus important to identify the synchronicity of emerging discourse on social media and the indications of organic/inorganic activity within the c…
From curious hashtags to polarized effect
Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots
Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time, the rise of social media facilitates the spread of online mis/disinformation narratives within and across these platforms. In this study, we characterize the coordinated information dissemination of information laden with mis- and disinformation narratives within and across…
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs
What are the pathways for spreading disinformation on social media platforms? This article addresses this question by collecting, categorising, and situating an extensive body of research on how application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by social media platforms facilitate the spread of disinformation. We first examine the landscape of official social media APIs, then perform quantitative research on the open-source code repositories Git…
Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots
Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time, the rise of social media facilitates the spread of online mis/disinformation narratives within and across these platforms. In this study, we characterize the coordinated information dissemination of information laden with mis- and disinformation narratives within and across…
From curious hashtags to polarized effect
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs
What are the pathways for spreading disinformation on social media platforms? This article addresses this question by collecting, categorising, and situating an extensive body of research on how application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by social media platforms facilitate the spread of disinformation. We first examine the landscape of official social media APIs, then perform quantitative research on the open-source code repositories Git…
From curious hashtags to polarized effect
Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots
Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time, the rise of social media facilitates the spread of online mis/disinformation narratives within and across these platforms. In this study, we characterize the coordinated information dissemination of information laden with mis- and disinformation narratives within and across…
Popping the hood on Chinese balloons
In this study, we examined online conversations on Twitter about a Chinese balloon spotted over U.S. airspace in January 2023. We investigated the conversations between U.S.-based, China-based and accounts from the rest of the world. We also studied the difference between bots and human accounts within these conversations. We found that U.S.-based accounts referred to the balloon as a surveillance balloon, China-based accounts focused on the shoo…
A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media
Social media has provided a citizen voice, giving rise to grassroots collective action, where users deploy a concerted effort to disseminate online narratives and even carry out offline protests. Sometimes these collective action are aided by inorganic synchronization, which arise from bot actors. It is thus important to identify the synchronicity of emerging discourse on social media and the indications of organic/inorganic activity within the c…
Cyborgs for strategic communication on social media
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 for strategic communication. Strategic communications, or StratCom, is the deliberate act of information creation and distribution. Its techniques are used by key figures for establishing brand and amplifying messages. Automated scripts are used on top of personal touch…
Analyzing digital propaganda and conflict rhetoric
The dissemination of disinformation has become a formidable weapon, with nation-states exploiting social media platforms to engineer narratives favorable to their geopolitical interests. This study delved into Russia’s orchestrated disinformation campaign, in three times periods of the 2022 Russian-Ukraine War: its incursion, its midpoint and the Ukrainian Kherson counteroffensive. This period is marked by a sophisticated blend of bot-driven stra…
Assembling a multi-platform ensemble social bot detector with applications to US 2020 elections
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. These studies analyzed the activity and influence of bots in a variety of contexts: elections, protests, health communication and so forth. Prior to this analyzes is the identification of bot accounts to segregate the class of social media users. In this work, we propose an…
Non-credibility scores
Pink slime news sites are politically polarized Web sites controlled by partisan national organizations that masquerade as local news. Instead of authentic community reporting, these sites rely on automated algorithms and APIs to fill in news articles between their politically charged messaging aimed at influencing votes. Over 1,000 of these sites have been identified, and the creator of the largest pink slime organization, Metric Media, has a go…
What News Is Shared Where and How
News journalism has evolved from traditional print media to social media, with a large proportion of readers consuming their news via digital means. Through an analysis of over 1.3 million posts across three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) pertaining to the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections, this analysis examines the difference in sharing patterns for four types of news sites—Real News, Local News, Low Credibility News, and Pink Sli…
Modes of toxic behavior and game design considerations in online multiplayer games
Online multiplayer games like League of Legends, Counter Strike, and Roblox create experiences through community interactions between players. These games provide players with the ability to interact with each other through multiple modes of communication: text, image, audio, and behavioral signals. However, the presence of such features also opens a Pandora’s box to toxic behavior, such as hate speech, racism, and gaming-specific behaviors like …
BotSim
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 social media bots that can spread conspiracies in an automated fashion.Currently, organizations combat the spread of conspiracies through manual fact-checking processes and the dissemination of counter-narratives.However, the effects of harnessing the same automation to crea…
Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · Spam and Phishing Detection (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Disinformation (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works)