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Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
May 19, 2020 Β· Declared Dead Β· π Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
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Authors
Kiran Garimella, Dean Eckles
arXiv ID
2005.09784
Category
cs.SI: Social & Info Networks
Cross-listed
cs.CY
Citations
106
Venue
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Last Checked
4 months ago
Abstract
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 period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that around 13% of shared images are known misinformation and most fall into three types of images. Machine learning methods can be used to predict whether a viral image is misinformation, but are brittle to shifts in content over time.
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