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In light of recent events in India, our paper "Narrative Building in Propaganda Networks on Indian Twitter" out today at #WebSci22 sheds some light on how hyper-partisan information is repeated, especially through a selection of influencers who consistently go viral.
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We curated and studied a large amount of data (over 80 million tweets in Hindi and English tweets from over 26000 politicians and 6000 influencers), for propagandist content. 
For each event, we outline how we classify tweets, detect propaganda, extract narratives (ie how the propaganda is framed), and finally estimate impact of each thread. These are detailed in the full paper.
