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Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Raphael Ottoni, Robert West +2
Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content…
Characterizing Attention Cascades in WhatsApp Groups
Josemar Alves Caetano, Gabriel Magno, Marcos Gonçalves +3
An important political and social phenomena discussed in several countries, like India and Brazil, is the use of WhatsApp to spread false or misleading content. However, little is…
Characterizing the public perception of WhatsApp through the lens of media
Josemar Alves Caetano, Gabriel Magno, Evandro Cunha +3
WhatsApp is, as of 2018, a significant component of the global information and communication infrastructure, especially in developing countries. However, probably due to its strong…
Fake news as we feel it: perception and conceptualization of the term "fake news" in the media
Evandro Cunha, Gabriel Magno, Josemar Caetano +2
In this article, we quantitatively analyze how the term "fake news" is being shaped in news media in recent years. We study the perception and the conceptualization of this term in…
Analyzing Right-wing YouTube Channels: Hate, Violence and Discrimination
Raphael Ottoni, Evandro Cunha, Gabriel Magno +3
As of 2018, YouTube, the major online video sharing website, hosts multiple channels promoting right-wing content. In this paper, we observe issues related to hate, violence and di…
Analyzing and characterizing political discussions in WhatsApp public groups
Josemar Alves Caetano, Jaqueline Faria de Oliveira, Helder Seixas Lima +4
We present a thorough characterization of what we believe to be the first significant analysis of the behavior of groups in WhatsApp in the scientific literature. Our characterizat…