WhatsApp Increases Exposure to False Rumors but has Limited Effects on Beliefs and Polarization: Evidence from a Multimedia-Constrained Deactivation.
For years WhatsApp has been the primary social media application in many countries of the Global South. Numerous journalistic and …
Path Weighted Regression: A Statistical Model to Describe Dependency in Large Networks
Dependency in large networks is among the most intractable challenges in social network analysis, as current approaches are …
Voting for Violence: Crime and the Election of Law-and-order Politicians in Brazil
This paper discusses how criminal violence affects voting behavior and citizens’ demand for security policies on unequal and …
Trustful Voters, Trustworthy Politicians: A Survey Experiment on the Influence of Social Mediain Politics
Recent increases in political polarization in social media raise questions about the relationship between negative online messages and …
