Bao T. Truong

Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) at Indiana University. Bloomington, USA.

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I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, advised by Dr. Fil Menczer. I develop methods to understand complex networks and systems, especially the diffusion of information on social media platforms. I combine machine learning, data science, and network science techniques to gain insight from large-scale human behavior data. The goal is to produce actionable insights for a better online world 🌟✨

At the Observatory on Social Media, I work on ways to combat online misinformation. My research spans from detecting inauthentic actors, to designing agent-based models that aim at assessing the impacts of social media misuse and recommending effective moderation strategies.

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    Quantifying the vulnerabilities of the online public square to adversarial manipulation tactics
    Bao Tran Truong, Xiaodan Lou, Alessandro Flammini, and 1 more author
    PNAS Nexus, Jun 2024
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    Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks
    Bao Tran Truong, Oliver Melbourne Allen, and Filippo Menczer
    EPJ Data Science, Jun 2024
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    Uncovering coordinated networks on social media: methods and case studies
    Diogo Pacheco, Pik-Mai Hui, Christopher Torres-Lugo, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Jun 2021