Yes: Affirmative consent as a theoretical framework for understanding and imagining social platforms

J Im, J Dimond, M Berton, U Lee, K Mustelier… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Affirmative consent is the idea that someone must ask for, and earn, enthusiastic approval
before interacting with someone else. For decades, feminist activists and scholars have …

Social debunking of misinformation on WhatsApp: the case for strong and in-group ties

IV Pasquetto, E Jahani, S Atreja, M Baum - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we argue that WhatsApp can play an important role in correcting
misinformation. We show how specific WhatsApp affordances (flexibility in format and …

A hierarchical network-oriented analysis of user participation in misinformation spread on WhatsApp

GP Nobre, CHG Ferreira, JM Almeida - Information Processing & …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Analyzing public opinion and misinformation in a COVID-19 telegram group chat

LHX Ng, JY Loke - IEEE Internet Computing, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze a Singapore-based COVID-19 Telegram group with more than 10000
participants. First, we study the group's opinion over time, focusing on five dimensions …

Dissemination, situated fact-checking, and social effects of misinformation among rural Bangladeshi villagers during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Sultana, SR Fussell - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigates the dissemination, situated fact-checking processes, and social
effects of COVID-19 related online and offline misinformation in rural Bangladeshi life. A six …

On the dynamics of political discussions on instagram: A network perspective

CHG Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, JM Almeida… - Online Social Networks …, 2021 - Elsevier
Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the
youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and political …

On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior

CH Gomes Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, M Trevisan… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …

El fact-checking como estrategia global para contener la desinformación

I Blanco-Alfonso, MÁ Chaparro Domínguez… - 2021 - … .consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec
Las organizaciones de fact-checking están imponiendo unos sistemas de verificación que
deben ser evaluados para diseñar futuras estrategias de contención de las fake news. El …

Can WhatsApp counter misinformation by limiting message forwarding?

P de Freitas Melo, CC Vieira, K Garimella… - Complex Networks and …, 2020 - Springer
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. The closed nature of the app, in
addition to the ease of transferring multimedia and sharing information to large-scale groups …

A deep dive into COVID-19-related messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan

RT Javed, M Usama, W Iqbal, J Qadir, G Tyson… - Social Network Analysis …, 2022 - Springer
The spread of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed led to an increase in activity on
online social networks. This has resulted in users sharing unfiltered and unreliable …