Articles By
Dean Eckles
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Images and misinformation in political groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
Kiran Garimella and Dean Eckles
WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that around 10% of shared images are known misinformation and most fall into three types of images.