Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Mishra, D., Pal, J. (2020) Indian Journalists’ reach on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis. Available online at: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-journalists-reach-on-twitter-during-the-covid-19-crisis/) We mapped the reach of Indian journalists in the months leading up to, and following the COVID-19…
List of debunked messages
# Domain Headline Post URL Category 1 indiatoday.in Fact Check: Bloated casualty figures linked to coronavirus leave netizens in panic https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-bloated-casualty-figures-linked-to-coronavirus-leave-netizens-in-panic-1643257-2020-02-04 Doctored Statistics 2 altnews.in Coronavirus: Image showing sulphur dioxide forecasts falsely linked with mass cremation in Wuhan https://www.altnews.in/coronavirus-image-showing-sulphur-dioxide-forecasts-falsely-linked-with-mass-cremation-in-wuhan/ Nature…
Temporal Patterns in COVID-19 misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Kukreti, D., Sagarika, S., Pal, J. (2020) Temporal patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Available online at: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) Following up on a preliminary survey of…
Freedom of press and social media partisanship in India
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (cite: Mishra, D., Pal, J (2020) “Freedom of press and social media partisanship in India: A visualization of tweets around the 2020 FIR against The Wire” http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/freedom-of-press-and-social-media-partisanship-in-india/) Following the statement by 3500 public figures including jurists and…
Political partisanship and COVID response in India
Dibyendu Mishra, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested citation: Mishra, D., Panda, A., and Pal, J. (2020) Political partisanship and COVID response in India https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/political-partisanship-and-covid-response-in-india/) We analyzed the timing, frequency, and content of Indian politicians’ tweeting on COVID related issues.…
Celebrity or journalist? Who do Indian politicians prefer to engage
(suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Celebrity or journalist? Who do Indian politicians prefer to engage http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/celebrity-or-journalist-who-do-indian-politicians-prefer-to-engage/) In a nutshell, we find that Indian politicians aggressively engage with both journalists and celebrities on the whole, but that there…
Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Pal, J. (2020) Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Microsoft Research India. Available online at: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) We conducted a preliminary survey of debunked COVID-19 related messages online, to create a taxonomy of misinformation.…
Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter
(suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-journalists-influence-on-twitter/) Overview The goal of this work has been to map the networks of influence on Indian social media. We took the top 110 journalists based…
Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-politicians-and-the-journalists-they-prefer/) We plotted Indian politicians based on the number of times they retweeted a member of the press. The goal of…
Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation
Dibyendu Mishra and Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation. https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/polarity-of-indian-news-sources-among-politicians/ ) In this piece we examine the impact of politicians’ engagement with news stories from specific…