Title | ||
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Thousands of small, constant rallies - a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups. |
Abstract | ||
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There is growing concern about the use of social platforms to push political narratives during elections. One very recent case is Brazil's, where WhatsApp is now widely perceived as a key enabler of the far-right's rise to power. In this paper, we perform a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups to shed light on how both right-wingers and left-wingers used the platform in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Across its two rounds, we collected +2.8M messages from +45k users in 232 public groups (175 right-wing vs. 57 left-wing). After describing how we obtained a sample that is many times larger than previous works, we contrast right-wingers and left-wingers on their social network metrics, regional distribution of users, content-sharing habits, and most characteristic news sources.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3341161.3342905 | ASONAM '19: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
August, 2019 |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
chat applications, WhatsApp, elections, partisanship, data collection, social network analysis | Data science,Scale analysis (statistics),Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2473-9928 | 978-1-4503-6868-1 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 1 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Victor S. Bursztyn | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
Lawrence A. Birnbaum | 2 | 7 | 2.60 |