
Haley Bragg
@haleybragg17
CNU Computer Science ‘23 | ODU REU Disinformation Detection and Analytics
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05-01-2019 22:31:51
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Very excited to welcome our U.S. National Science Foundation funded REU Site cohort for the 2022. Thank you for all the mentors, and graduate students for the help to make this a successful recruitment from over 75+ applicants. WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Old Dominion University


Picture with all 8 mentors Michael L. Nelson Michele Weigle Jian Wu Vikas G Ashok Erika Frydenlund @slpmichalek Faryaneh Poursardar Sampath Jayarathna and few graduate students Bhanuka Mahanama Yasasi (took the picture) and Emily Escamilla . WS-DL Group, ODU CS WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU College of Sciences


“For the third year in a row, Twitter is the most expensive platform to manipulate and Instagram is the cheapest.” bit.ly/3NS4HZl It’s time to take a closer look at disinformation on Instagram. #DisInfoREU2022 ODU CS REU

It’s already more difficult to analyze disinformation campaigns on Instagram than on other social media platforms. Without CrowdTangle, Instagram’s disinformation problem will only get worse. #DisInfoREU2022 ODU CS REU

For my REU project, I plan to replicate and expand on the archival analysis that Himarsha performed on Katy Perry’s Instagram. I will be evaluating the group of anti-vaxx content creators known as the Disinformation Dozen. #DisInfoREU2022 ODU CS REU

To expand on this work and understand how well disinformation campaigns are archived on Instagram, I am creating a script to determine how many captures of the Disinformation Dozen accounts replay well vs how many redirect to the Instagram login page. #DisInfoREU2022 ODU CS REU

Now, Haley Bragg is presenting her study (mentor: Michele Weigle) Traces of Disinformation on Instagram". Why Instagram: More engagement, audience, and harder to archive. ODU CS REU WS-DL Group, ODU CS nirds-lab ODU Computer Science ODU Computer Science U.S. National Science Foundation #oducsreu


Want to view archived instagram posts of the Disinformation Dozen? Haley Bragg found that unfortunately only 1.05% of mementos are replayable with complete post images! What happened to the other 99%? Almost all (96.13%) of the mementos redirect to the log in screen.

Excited to share our upcoming TPDL2022 - 2023 paper on "The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications" TL;DR? GitHub is increasingly being referenced in scholarly publications which emphasizes the need to archive GitHub repositories for reproducibility arxiv.org/abs/2208.04895
