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cs.SI2021
Trend Alert: How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election
Maurice Jakesch, Kiran Garimella, Dean Eckles +1
Political organizations worldwide keep innovating their use of social media technologies. In the 2019 Indian general election, organizers used a network of WhatsApp groups to manip…
cs.SI2020★ 1 cited
Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
Kiran Garimella, Dean Eckles
WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the pe…
cs.SI2017
Randomized experiments to detect and estimate social influence in networks
Sean J. Taylor, Dean Eckles
Estimation of social influence in networks can be substantially biased in observational studies due to homophily and network correlation in exposure to exogenous events. Randomized…