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04/08/2023
Effects of Algorithmic Trend Promotion: Evidence from Coordinated Campaigns in Twitter's Trending Topics
In addition to more personalized content feeds, some leading social medi...
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03/18/2023
On the rise of fear speech in online social media
Recently, social media platforms are heavily moderated to prevent the sp...
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10/29/2021
Diagnosing Web Data of ICTs to Provide Focused Assistance in Agricultural Adoptions
The past decade has witnessed a rapid increase in technology ownership a...
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06/08/2021
Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a popular chat application used by over 2 billion users worl...
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06/08/2021
Tackling spam in the era of end-to-end encryption: A case study of WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around ...
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06/01/2021
Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking
Manual fact-checking does not scale well to serve the needs of the inter...
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04/27/2021
#Trend Alert: How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election
Political organizations worldwide keep innovating their use of social me...
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04/09/2021
Political Polarization in Online News Consumption
Political polarization appears to be on the rise, as measured by voting ...
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02/07/2021
"Short is the Road that Leads from Fear to Hate": Fear Speech in Indian WhatsApp Groups
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. Due to its popu...
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12/11/2020
Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception
In many societies, appearing slim is considered attractive. The fashion ...
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11/18/2020
A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussio...
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09/16/2020
Human biases in body measurement estimation
Body measurements, including weight and height, are key indicators of he...
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06/03/2020
Detecting Misinformation on WhatsApp without Breaking Encryption
The popularity of smartphone messaging apps like WhatsApp are revolution...
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05/19/2020
Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared...
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05/05/2020
A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections
Recently, messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, have been reportedly...
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04/23/2020
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion...
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09/18/2019