Thread by @joyopal

We visualized which parties engage with tweets from various sources, & effect that has on news propagation. Thread with key trends, Oversimplified, polarization works.

Full details of the study and methodology are available here:
joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/politician-eng…

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Sources that are the most engaged by politicians are @ANI @TimesNow @AajTak @NDTV

Sources that get relatively more engaged when a politician retweets are @ANI @ZeeNewsHindi @BBCHindi @OpIndia_com @ndtvindia @ttindia. This is arguably a metric for a source being “more political”

This brilliant graphic by photoshop failures explains

More the polarization, the more the retweets. eg, when @timesofindia gets RT’d by a politician, it gets less throughput than when a non-BJP politician RTs @theWire_in when a BJP politician RTs @OpIndia, even when they both get relatively the same number of retweets.

Sources that get relatively more engaged when a BJP politician retweets them are @ANI @ABPNews @Republic. This is arguably a metric for these sources being more preferred by those that agree with BJP ideology

Sources that get relatively more engaged when a non-BJP politician retweets them are @ndtvindia @BBCHindi @TheWire_in. This is arguably a metric for these sources being more preferred by those that agree with BJP ideology