About the Authors

Isaac Chun-Hai Fung

cfung@georgiasouthern.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460–8015, United States of America

Yi Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Hao, Jingxian Cai

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460–8015, United States of America

Jingxian Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Hao, Jingxian Cai

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460–8015, United States of America

Yuchen Ying

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30605, United States of America

Braydon James Schaible

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460–8015, United States of America

Cynthia Mengxi Yu

Affiliations Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Zion Tsz Ho Tse

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, United States of America

King-Wa Fu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ICHF ZTHT KWF. Performed the experiments: ICHF YY ZTHT KWF. Analyzed the data: ICHF YH JC BJS CMY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY ZTHT KWF. Wrote the paper: ICHF ZTHT KWF. Provided data for analysis: KWF.