Weiai (Wayne) Xu

2021-22 Scholars Project Title:  The digital civil war in diaspora communities: an investigation of actors, networks, and content in digital disinformation and propaganda targeting immigrant communities

This is a computational project on digital disinformation and propaganda originating from or/and targeting immigrant communities focusing on actors (e.g., content producers and influencers), diffusion networks, and major frames. The project also plans to develop state-of-the-art computational tools that can be readily applied to non-English content and communities in efforts to scale up the contact-tracing of disinformation and propaganda.