Trend Alert: A Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election
Trend Alert: A Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election
Political organizations worldwide keep innovating their use of social media technologies. In the 2019 Indian general election, organizers used a network of WhatsApp groups to manipulate Twitter trends through coordinated mass postings. We joined 600 WhatsApp groups that support the Bharatiya Janata Party, the right-wing party that won the general …