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Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems

Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri +1

Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented in…

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Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites

Hans W. A. Hanley, Emily Okabe, Zakir Durumeric

Understanding how misleading and outright false information enters news ecosystems remains a difficult challenge that requires tracking how narratives spread across thousands of fr…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale

Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric

Misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies proliferate on the web, with some narratives having dangerous real-world consequences on public health, elections, and individual safe…

cs.SI2023★ 2 cited

Twits, Toxic Tweets, and Tribal Tendencies: Trends in Politically Polarized Posts on Twitter

Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric

Social media platforms are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization and worsening public dialogue. Many claim that hyperpartisan users post pernicious content, slanted…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation's Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions on Reddit

Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric

In this work, we examine the influence of unreliable information on political incivility and toxicity on the social media platform Reddit. We show that comments on articles from un…

cs.SI2022★ 12 cited

Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War On Reddit

Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric

In the buildup to and in the weeks following the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media outlets output torrents of misleading and outright false information.…