Haley Bragg

CNU Computer Science ‘23 | ODU REU Disinformation Detection and Analytics

[JCDL2023 @jcdl2023]

We’re proud of our #JCDL2023 award nominees who are #RethinkingDigitalRecords.

Of course, we will announce award winners during the conference.

https://t.co/QcSyuaGNYj

[Emily Escamilla @EmilyEscamilla_]

Excited to share our upcoming @tpdl2022 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

https://t.co/nDjZTC6SXq

[Lesley Frew @lesley_elis]

Want to view archived instagram posts of the Disinformation Dozen? @haleybragg17 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.

[Bhanuka Mahanama @mahanama94]

Now, @haleybragg17 is presenting her study (mentor: @weiglemc) Traces of Disinformation on Instagram". Why @instagram: More engagement, audience, and harder to archive. @oducsreu @WebSciDL @NirdsLab @oducs @oducs @NSF #oducsreu

[Haley Bragg @haleybragg17]

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 @oducsreu

[Himarsha R. Jayanetti @HimarshaJ]

Twitter is well-archived, Facebook is not well-archived as compared to Twitter, but they're both miles ahead of Instagram.

[Haley Bragg @haleybragg17]

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 @oducsreu

[Himarsha R. Jayanetti @HimarshaJ]

If @katyperry’s @Instagram, with 107M followers, is not well-archived, what hope is there for the rest of us?

#webarchiving #Instagram @WebSciDL @InternetArchive @RhizomeConifer and a very happy first-anniversary for #WebArchiveWednesday

https://t.co/orpHXvqGMv

[Haley Bragg @haleybragg17]

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 @oducsreu

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

It's hard to overstate how much of a disaster it'd be for fact-checkers and reporters if Meta ditched its research tool CrowdTangle for good. My list of stories where it helped our team pick up key misinformation narratives and patterns is very long.
https://t.co/aVNVXiA74h

[Haley Bragg @haleybragg17]

“For the third year in a row, Twitter is the most expensive platform to manipulate and Instagram is the cheapest.” https://t.co/TJjqrnHsSU

It’s time to take a closer look at disinformation on Instagram.

#DisInfoREU2022 @oducsreu

[STRATCOMCOE @STRATCOMCOE]

Even if individual companies are improving their fake news combat efforts, our analysis shows that social media manipulation continues to be cheap and effective - antagonists exploit social media loopholes to manipulate public discussions. Read more 👉 https://t.co/a83QOWR53t

[Sampath Jayarathna @OpenMaze]

Picture with all 8 mentors @phonedude_mln @weiglemc @fanchyna @vikas_daveb @ErikaFrydenlund @slpmichalek @Faryane @OpenMaze and few graduate students @mahanama94 @Yasasi_Abey (took the picture) and @EmilyEscamilla_ . @WebSciDL @WebSciDL @ODUSCI

[Sampath Jayarathna @OpenMaze]

Very excited to welcome our @nsf 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. @WebSciDL @ODUSCI @oducs @odu