Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding.
However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media …

WhatsApp has revolutionized the way people communicate and interact. It is not only
cheaper than the traditional Short Message Service (SMS) communication but it also brings …

The issues of online fake news have attained an increasing eminence in the diffusion of
shaping news stories online. Misleading or unreliable information in the form of videos …

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 …

Parler is as an" alternative" social network promoting itself as a service that allows to" speak
freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your views." …

This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3 M threads and 134.5 M posts from the Politically
Incorrect board (/pol/) of the imageboard forum 4chan, posted over a period of almost 3.5 …

Exploring behavioral change in the digital age is imperative for societal progress in the
context of 21st-century challenges. We analyzed 148 articles (2000-2023) and built a map …

WhatsApp emerged as a major communication platform in many countries in the recent
years. Despite offering only one-to-one and small group conversations, WhatsApp has been …

WhatsApp has remained under the radar for it is scarcely accessible to overt scholarly
scrutiny. Encrypted chat apps allow for a certain degree of perceived secrecy. Yet the high …

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. Due to its popularity, WhatsApp
has become a powerful and cheap tool for political campaigning being widely used during …