Search Results for author: Aarash Heydari

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YouTube Chatter: Understanding Online Comments Discourse on Misinformative and Political YouTube Videos

1 code implementation30 Jun 2019 Aarash Heydari, Janny Zhang, Shaan Appel, Xinyi Wu, Gireeja Ranade

One of our most interesting discoveries is that especially-polarized or misinformative political channels (Left-Bias, Right-Bias, PragerU, Conspiracy-Pseudoscience, and Questionable Source) generate 7. 5x more comments per view and 10. 42x more replies per view than apolitical or Pro-Science channels; in particular, Conspiracy-Pseudoscience and Questionable Sources generate 8. 3x more comments per view and 11. 0x more replies per view than apolitical and Pro-Science channels.

Computers and Society

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