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New Election, Same Old Story: How Tropes Form a Grammar of Election Rumors
Stephen Prochaska, Mert Bayar, Ashlyn B. Aske +2
Recent elections in the United States have seen online rumors become a regular feature of election discourse as voters and election officials work to navigate a sea of digitally sp…
The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou +2
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction…
ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms
Joseph S Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska +7
Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, one inf…
Echo Chambers in the Age of Algorithms: An Audit of Twitter's Friend Recommender System
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Jevin D. West +1
The presence of political misinformation and ideological echo chambers on social media platforms is concerning given the important role that these sites play in the public's exposu…