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How Language, Culture, and Geography shape Online Dialogue: Insights from Koo
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
Koo is a microblogging platform based in India launched in 2020 with the explicit aim of catering to non-Western communities in their vernacular languages. With a near-complete dat…
The Koo Dataset: An Indian Microblogging Platform With Global Ambitions
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
Increasingly, alternative platforms are playing a key role in the social media ecosystem. Koo, a microblogging platform based in India, has emerged as a major new social network ho…
The Systemic Impact of Deplatforming on Social Media
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
Deplatforming, or banning malicious accounts from social media, is a key tool for moderating online harms. However, the consequences of deplatforming for the wider social media eco…
Heterogeneous rarity patterns drive price dynamics in NFT collections
Amin Mekacher, Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini +4
We quantify Non Fungible Token (NFT) rarity and investigate how it impacts market behaviour by analysing a dataset of 3.7M transactions collected between January 2018 and June 2022…
Growing polarisation around climate change on social media
Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli +8
Climate change and political polarisation are two of the 21st century's critical socio-political issues. Here, we investigate their intersection by studying the discussion around t…