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18 papers
Structural Dynamics of Harmful Content Dissemination on WhatsApp
Yuxin Liu, M. Amin Rahimian, Kiran Garimella
WhatsApp, a platform with more than two billion global users, plays a crucial role in digital communication, but also serves as a vector for harmful content such as misinformation,…
A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
R. Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama +5
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an `infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information…
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar +2
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on…
Hot Streaks on Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Robert West
Measuring the impact and success of human performance is common in various disciplines, including art, science, and sports. Quantifying impact also plays a key role on social media…
Political Discourse on Social Media: Echo Chambers, Gatekeepers, and the Price of Bipartisanship
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
Echo chambers, i.e., situations where one is exposed only to opinions that agree with their own, are an increasing concern for the political discourse in many democratic countries.…
Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests
Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella +1
Migrants' assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic tre…