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Visibility vs. Engagement: How Two Indian News Websites Reported on LGBTQ Individuals and Communities during the Pandemic
Dhruvee Birla, Nazia Akhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15041

Visibility vs. Engagement: How Two Indian News Websites Reported on LGBTQ+ Individuals and Communities during the Pandemic
In India, online news media outlets were an important source of information for people with digital access during the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, where "transgender" was legally recognised as a category only in 2014, and same-sex marriages are yet to be legalised, it becomes crucial to analyse whether and how they reported the lived realities of vulnerable LGBTQ+ communities during the pandemic. This study analysed articles from online editions of two English-language newspaper websites, which…

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Scot A. Hale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16298 https:/…

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
WhatsApp tiplines, first launched in 2019 to combat misinformation, enable users to interact with fact-checkers to verify misleading content. This study analyzes 580 unique claims (tips) from 451 users, covering both high-resource languages (English, Hindi) and a low-resource language (Telugu) during the 2021 Indian assembly elections using a mixed-method approach. We categorize the claims into three categories, election, COVID-19, and others, and observe variations across languages. We compare…