Abraham, Samira S.; Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; … - 2023
This paper studies how discriminatory fake news arises and spatially diffuses. We focus on India at the onset of the … hotspot, and the next day, fake news on Muslims intentionally spreading the virus spiked. Using Twitter data, we build a … comprehensive novel dataset of georeferenced tweets to identify anti-Muslim fake news. We find, in cross-sectional and difference …