The 2016 U.S. presidential election has witnessed the major role of Twitter in the year's most important political event. Candidates used this social media platform extensively for online campaigns. Meanwhile, social media has been filled with rumors, which might have had huge impacts on voters'...
election, both Twitter and Facebook calculated and released aggregate-level estimates of user exposure to Russian foreign influence accounts on their platforms, each company did so differently, with statistics that are not comparable. Facebook, for example, stated that 126 million of its users had ...
In this paper, we present a sentiment analysis of text messages extracted from the social media Twitter about the candidates of the 2016 US Presidential Election. The objective of this paper is to find how the traditional method for sentiment analysis compares to the polls and if the sentiment ...
we’re already starting to see the impact as Google and Facebook take steps to combat fake news sites (which some people blame fordistributing misinformationduring the lead-up to the election), and Twitter’s move to roll out new tools to help users fight back against...
A right-wing social media influencer was charged on Wednesday with spreading disinformation online that may have prevented thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters from voting in the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey, 31, is accused of publishing memes on Twitter that falsely claimed Democratic...
Fake news on twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. Science 363, 374–378 (2019). Article CAS Google Scholar Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. Lazy, not biased: susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. Cognition 188,...
Twitter and Elections share a strong bond since a longtime now. With advancement in technology and increase in a number of people using Twitter, the researchers working in this domain have a perfect opportunity to work on Twitter based emotions towards election predictions. Though this approach was...
US election results: Donald Trump insists he 'won' election in first tweets after losing to Joe Biden When the news of Joe Biden's victory came through, Donald Trump was playing golf - but he was soon on Twitter. Donald Trump has once more insisted that he has...
Regarding the intensive margin, we compare Facebook users belonging to the same audience, but that had their pre-election interview on a different day. Note that individuals are randomly assigned to different interview dates and, hence, the intensity of advertising they receive between the time ...
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