Soham De, Joyojeet Pal Following Rahul Gandhi’s claim that Twitter had been artificially suppressing his following online, journalist Barkha Dutt also suggested that her own following had plateaued, and that Twitter may have artificially frozen her online following, we examined…
Did Twitter Consciously Undermine an Opposition Leader in India? An Analysis of the Rahul Gandhi Following Affair
Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal A complaint from Rahul Gandhi to Twitter about the stagnation in his Twitter following triggered a conversation about the social media giant’s possible role in undermining political speech. Gandhi’s team alleged that the stagnation, and occasional…
Polarity of News Sources among Indian Politicians
Dibyendu Mishra and Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Polarity of News Sources among Indian Politicians. https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/polarity-of-indian-news-sources-among-politicians/ ) We plotted the major Indian news sources and which politicians tweeted stories by them between Jan 2019 and Feb 2020.…