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Dharma, Data and Deception: An LLM-Powered Rhetorical Analysis of Cow-Urine Health Claims on YouTube
Sheza Munir, Ratna Kandala, Anamta Khan +2
Health misinformation remains one of the most pressing challenges on social media, particularly when cultural traditions intersect with scientific-sounding claims. These dynamics a…
When Cow Urine Cures Constipation on YouTube: Limits of LLMs in Detecting Culture-specific Health Misinformation
Anamta Khan, Ratna Kandala, Deepti +2
Social media platforms have become primary channels for health information in the Global South. Using gomutra (cow urine) discourse on YouTube in India as a case study, we present…
Generative Propaganda
Madeleine I. G. Daepp, Alejandro Cuevas, Robert Osazuwa Ness +6
Generative propaganda is the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to shape public opinion. To characterize its use in real-world settings, we conducted interviews with de…
Understanding Journalists' Workflows in News Curation
Shubham Atreja, Shruthi Srinath, Mohit Jain +1
With the increasing dominance of the internet as a source of news consumption, there has been a rise in the production and popularity of email newsletters compiled by individual jo…
Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media
Agrima Seth, Soham De, Arshia Arya +3
Influencers play a crucial role in shaping public narratives through information creation and diffusion in the Global South. While public figures from various walks of life and the…
Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter
Arshia Arya, Soham De, Dibyendu Mishra +12
Databases of highly networked individuals have been indispensable in studying narratives and influence on social media. To support studies on Twitter in India, we present a systema…
Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India
Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Gazal Shekhawat +3
Dangerous speech on social media platforms can be framed as blatantly inflammatory, or be couched in innuendo. It is also centrally tied to who engages it - it can be driven by ope…
Extremism & Whataboutism: A Case Study on Bangalore Riots
Saloni Dash, Gazal Shekhawat, Syeda Zainab Akbar +1
A common diversionary tactic used to deflect attention from contested issues is whataboutery which, when used by majoritarian groups to justify their behaviour against marginalised…
Sporting the government: Twitter as a window into sportspersons' engagement with causes in India and USA
Dibyendu Mishra, Ronojoy Sen, Joyojeet Pal
With the ubiquitous reach of social media, influencers are increasingly central to articulation of political agendas on a range of topics. We curate a sample of tweets from the 200…
Divided We Rule: Influencer Polarization on Twitter During Political Crises in India
Saloni Dash, Dibyendu Mishra, Gazal Shekhawat +1
Influencers are key to the nature and networks of information propagation on social media. Influencers are particularly important in political discourse through their engagement wi…
Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers' Protest
Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Arshia Arya +3
A tweet from popular entertainer and businesswoman, Rihanna, bringing attention to farmers' protests around Delhi set off heightened activity on Indian social media. An immediate c…
Anatomy of a Rumour: Social media and the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Ankur Sharma, Himani Negi +2
The suicide of Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown triggered a media frenzy of prime time coverage that lasted several months and became a polit…
COVID, BLM, and the polarization of US politicians on Twitter
Anmol Panda, Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal
We mapped the tweets of 520 US Congress members, focusing on analyzing their engagement with two broad topics: first, the COVID-19 pandemic, and second, the recent wave of anti-rac…
Indian Political Twitter and Caste Discrimination -- How Representation Does Not Equal Inclusion in Lok Sabha Networks
Palashi Vaghela, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Joyojeet Pal
Caste privilege persists in the form of upper caste "networks" in India made up of political, social, and economic relations that tend to actively exclude lower caste members. In t…