Fighting fake news: Decoding ‘fact-free’ world of WhatsApp
We collected data from over 2000 politics-focussed public WhatsApp groups in the run-up to 2018 December assembly elections to identify themes that get viral in India’s “fake news” ecosystem. We report three key findings in the Hindustan Times.
NEW: @gvrkiran and I collected data from over 2000 politics-focussed public WhatsApp groups in the run-up to 2018 assembly elections to identify themes that get viral in India's “fake news” ecosystem. In today's @htTweets: 3 key points (1/n)https://t.co/2pDxIpx90H pic.twitter.com/cSTK1UwIoy
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