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Factors in Recommending Contrarian Content on Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
Polarization is a troubling phenomenon that can lead to societal divisions and hurt the democratic process. It is therefore important to develop methods to reduce it. We propose an…
The Effect of Collective Attention on Controversial Debates on Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
We study the evolution of long-lived controversial debates as manifested on Twitter from 2011 to 2016. Specifically, we explore how the structure of interactions and content of dis…
Exposing Twitter Users to Contrarian News
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
Polarized topics often spark discussion and debate on social media. Recent studies have shown that polarized debates have a specific clustered structure in the endorsement net- wor…
The Ebb and Flow of Controversial Debates on Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
We explore how the polarization around controversial topics evolves on Twitter - over a long period of time (2011 to 2016), and also as a response to major external events that lea…