The default approach to deal with the enormous size and limited accessibility of many Web
and social media networks is to sample one or more subnetworks from a conceptually …

In October 2021, an advertisement for a fairness cream by the Indian company Dabur ignited
a fierce controversy, unveiling deeply ingrained ideologies of lesbophobia, misogyny …

Online gender based violence has grown concomitantly with adoption of the internet and
social media. Its effects are worse in the Global majority where many users use social media …

The structure and mechanics of organized outreach around certain issues, such as in
propaganda networks, is constantly evolving on social media. We collect tweets on two …

With the ubiquitous reach of social media, influencers are becoming increasingly central to
the articulation of political agendas on a range of topics. We curate a sample of tweets from …

In this study we investigate gender bias within journalist politician interactions in India—a
country in global south. Previous work identified gender bias in online political discourse …

Professional fact-checking is a multi-step process. First stories need to be selected for fact-
checking. This involves stories being reported to a factchecker. There are a range of …

Social Media is increasingly central to culture wars, and in recent years has been at the
center of debates around the weaponization of peoples' opinions in polarized situations. We …

With today's social networks measuring up to millions and billions of nodes and edges, it
becomes essential to devise methodologies to obtain a subgraph with the required …

According to a report by DataReportal, as of the beginning of 2024, internet penetration in
India stands at 52.4% with 751.4 million internet users, of which 462 million have a social …