Exposing the Obscured Influence of State-Controlled Media: A Causal Estimation of Influence Between Media Outlets Via Quotation Propagation

no code implementations • 16 Jan 2022 • Joseph Schlessinger, Richard Bennet, Jacob Coakwell, Steven T. Smith, Edward K. Kao

This study quantifies influence between media outlets by applying a novel methodology that uses causal effect estimation on networks and transformer language models.

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