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Analysing the Influence of the Speaker's Ethnicity on Hate Classification
Ananya Malik, Kartik Sharma, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Shaily Bhatt
Harassment in the Digital Arena: Analyzing Online Abuse Against U.S. Politicians
Swapneel Mehta, Atmik Shetty, Arpit Sharma
Mimicking Human Behavior: Evaluating LLMs' Propensity to Share Fake News
Swapneel Mehta, Aaryamonvikram Singh, Viral Dalal
Platform Transparency Report
Caitlyn Vergara, Raghav Jain, Swapneel Mehta
A Framework to Organize and Develop New Social Media Interventions
Caitlyn Vergara, Jhagrut Lalwani, Hriday Ranka, Devang Shah, Neel Kothari, Swapneel Mehta
Multimodal querying system
Raghav Jain, Swapneel Mehta
How the presence of Political Elites in Videos affect a Social Media Influencer's Audiences
Swapneel Mehta, Aaryamonvikram Singh, Viral Dalal
Ecosystem Simulator
Swapneel Mehta, Saket Sultania
Digitizing Maternal Healthcare Data Collection in Rural India
Swapneel Mehta, Rishika Sharma, Prasad Ranjan, Meetali Kapse, Vivek Dubey
Media Monitoring Assessment
Dhara Mungra, Prasad Ranjan, Aradhya Sakalley, Siddh Shah, Pankti Sheta
Study Network Coordination via neo4j
Archit Rathod, Dhara Mungra, Gautam Malpani
Dissecting Misinformation Dissemination on Telegram amidst Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Swapneel Mehta, Hriday Ranka, Lynnette Ng, Devang Shah
From Homophobia to Assault: The Gendered Landscape of Bangladesh’s Political Disinformation
Aditya Surve, Dhara Mungra, Veer Pariawala, Swapneel Mehta
Wikipedia Pageview Data Analysis
Chaitya Shah, Gautam Malpani, Swapneel Mehta, Lynnette Ng, Ritesh Konka, Pranali Kurani
Multimodal Explorations on Social Media Marketing
Swapneel Mehta, Lynnette Ng, Ritesh Konka, Pranali Kurani
Gothamist Newsroom Audience Analytics and Measurement
Deepkumar Patel, Dhara Mungra, Swapneel Mehta, Mohammed RazaSyed, Aaron Hill, Nidhi Kadam, Heli Naik
Evaluating the Impact of Large Language Models on Hate Speech Propagation in Online Forums
Archit Rathod, Caitlyn Vergara, Gautam Malpani, Mokshit Surana, Swapneel Mehta, Sahil Shenoy, Varun Nair, Deb Donig
How Facebook Has Become a Political Battleground in Bangladesh
Aditya Surve, Dhara Mungra, Raghav Jain, Swapneel Mehta, Veer Pariawala
Digital Menstrual Health-Care Literacy Intervention
Meet Mehta, Mrunmayi Parker, Nahush Patil, Pratyay Banerjee, Raghav Jain, Khushi Jobanputra, Gauri Bhosle, Prashant Kumar, Utkarsh Verma
Does decentralization affect User Agency on Social Platforms
Shristi Shetty, Dhvani Shah, Aneesh Shamraj, Aditya Surve, Swapneel Mehta
YouTube Data Collection and Co-ordinated Network Analysis
Archit Rathod, Gargi Sathe, Mokshit Surana, Raghav Jain, Swapneel Mehta
Unveiling Misinformation Landscapes and User Behavior on Truth Social
Gautam Malpani, Swapneel Mehta, Varun Nair
Examining the implications of Deepfakes for Election Integrity
Hriday Ranka, Mokshit Surana, Neel Kothari, Veer Pariawala, Pratyay Banerjee, Aditya Surve, Sainath Reddy Sankepally, Raghav Jain, Jhagrut Lalwani, Swapneel Mehta
Deploying LLM based Chatbots for Indic Languages in Low Resource Regions
Anonymous
Improving Digital Platform Governance with Interactive Marketplace Experiments
Anonymous
Active & Deleted User Analysis along with Network Graphs for dissemination of information
Anonymous
Expanding Access to ML Research through Student-led Collaboratives
Deep Gandhi, Raghav Jain, Jay Gala, Jhagrut Lalwani, Swapneel S Mehta
Estimating the Impact of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on Content Recommendations in Social Networks
Swapneel S Mehta, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Bogdan State, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, Philip Torr