Dean Eckles

schoolMassachusetts Institute of Technologybar_chart#4309 Global Rank

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#4309

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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. This study describes a novel configuration of technologies and organizational forms for the manipulation of Twitter trends. In the 2019 Indian general election, campaign organizers used a network of WhatsApp groups to coordinate…

CHI '213rd AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking: Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment

A prominent approach to combating online misinformation is to debunk false content. Here we investigate downstream consequences of social corrections on users’ subsequent sharing of other content. Being corrected might make users more attentive to accuracy, thus improving their subsequent sharing. Alternatively, corre…

CHI '183rd AuthorSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +1

Social Influence and Reciprocity in Online Gift Giving

Giving gifts is a fundamental part of human relationships that is being affected by technology. The Internet enables people to give at the last minute and over long distances, and to observe friends giving and receiving gifts. How online gift giving spreads in social networks is therefore important to understand. We e…

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