What happened? the spread of fake news publisher content during the 2016 us presidential election

C Budak - The world wide web conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The spread of content produced by fake news publishers was one of the most discussed
characteristics of the 2016 US Presidential Election. Yet, little is known about the prevalence …

PoliBERTweet: a pre-trained language model for analyzing political content on Twitter

K Kawintiranon, L Singh - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Transformer-based models have become the state-of-the-art for numerous natural language
processing (NLP) tasks, especially for noisy data sets, including social media posts. For …

Polarization of opinions on COVID-19 measures: integrating twitter and survey data

M Reiter-Haas, B Klösch, M Hadler… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Polarization of public opinion is a major issue for societies, as high levels can promote
adverse effects such as hostility. The present paper focuses on the polarization of opinions …

[BOOK][B] Words that matter: How the news and social media shaped the 2016 Presidential campaign

L Bode, C Budak, JM Ladd - 2020 - books.google.com
How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidency The 2016
presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did …

(Mis) alignment between stance expressed in social media data and public opinion surveys

K Joseph, S Shugars, R Gallagher, J Green… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target
concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet …

Detecting and Understanding of Information Pollution on Social Media

K Kawintiranon - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Social media and the web have become primary sources for obtaining information and
news. Given the speed and spread of information on social media, effects of poor-quality …

Spatiotemporal variations of public opinion on social distancing in the Netherlands: Comparison of Twitter and longitudinal survey data

C Zhang, S Wang, E Tjong Kim Sang… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Social distancing has been implemented by many countries to curb the COVID-
19 pandemic. Understanding public support for this policy calls for effective and efficient …