Research

My current research interests are broadly within Computational Social Science, and span several topics including pluralistic alignment, scalable oversight and algorithms with pro-social objectives.

Much of my past research deals with strategic information operations and political influencing in the Global South. This includes studies on rumours, conspiracies and other forms of online influencing, primarily on X (formerly, Twitter).

"The work is mysterious and important." — Mark S, Lumon Industries

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
‡ indicates equal contribution.

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Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking

Soham De, Michiel A. Bakker, Jay Baxter, and Martin Saveski

The ACM Web Conference. 2025

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On the Influence and Political Leaning of Overlap between Propaganda Communities

Anirban Sen, Somyasis Gun, Soham De, and Joyojeet Pal

ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS). 2024

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Networks and Influencers in Online Propaganda Events: A Comparative Study of Three Cases in India

Anirban Sen, Soham De, and Joyojeet Pal

Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 2024

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FeedSpan: A bridging-based prosocial feed reranking algorithm

Luke Thorburn, Soham De, Kayla Duskin, Hongfan Lu, Smitha Milli, Martin Saveski, and Aviv Ovadya

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge. 2024

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DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Arshia Arya‡, Soham De‡, Dibyendu Mishra‡, Gazal Shekhawat‡, Ankur Sharma, Anmol Panda, Faisal Lalani, Parantak Singh, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Rynaa Grover, Sachita Nishal, Saloni Dash, Shehla Rashid, Zainab Akbar, and Joyojeet Pal ‡

Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2022

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Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians

Agrima Seth‡, Soham De‡, Arshia Arya, Steven Wilkinson, Sushant Singh, and Joyojeet Pal ‡

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). 2022

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Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking

Soham De, Michiel A. Bakker, Jay Baxter, and Martin Saveski

The ACM Web Conference. 2025

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On the Influence and Political Leaning of Overlap between Propaganda Communities

Anirban Sen, Somyasis Gun, Soham De, and Joyojeet Pal

ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS). 2024

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Networks and Influencers in Online Propaganda Events: A Comparative Study of Three Cases in India

Anirban Sen, Soham De, and Joyojeet Pal

Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 2024

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Enhancing Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Using LLM-Driven Consensus

Soham De, Michiel A. Bakker, and Martin Saveski

The 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science. 2024

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FeedSpan: A bridging-based prosocial feed reranking algorithm

Luke Thorburn, Soham De, Kayla Duskin, Hongfan Lu, Smitha Milli, Martin Saveski, and Aviv Ovadya

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge. 2024

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Sustaining Discourse in a Rumour Network on Twitter

Soham De, Anirban Sen, and Joyojeet Pal

The 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science. 2023

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Social Media and Society in India

Soham De, Arshia Arya, Divya Ramesh, Meg Young, and Joyojeet Pal

Proceedings of SMSI 2023, University of Michigan. 2023

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DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Arshia Arya‡, Soham De‡, Dibyendu Mishra‡, Gazal Shekhawat‡, Ankur Sharma, Anmol Panda, Faisal Lalani, Parantak Singh, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Rynaa Grover, Sachita Nishal, Saloni Dash, Shehla Rashid, Zainab Akbar, and Joyojeet Pal ‡

Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2022

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Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians

Agrima Seth‡, Soham De‡, Arshia Arya, Steven Wilkinson, Sushant Singh, and Joyojeet Pal ‡

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). 2022

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Poster: Experiences of Journalists on Twitter in India

Soham De‡, Sukhnidh Kaur‡, and Joyojeet Pal ‡

ACM SIGCHI Symposum for HCI and Friends. 2022

Media Coverage

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Exploring the Intersection between Computer Science and Social Development

and Yukti Arora

Ashoka University. 2023

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Coordinated campaign? India #1 source for pro-Russia tweets amid Ukraine war, says Ashoka study

Regina Mihindukulasuriya, and Soham De

The Print. 2022

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Who are BJP's favourite journalists? What about Congress and AAP? A Michigan study reveals

Soham De, and Joyojeet Pal

Newslaundry. 2022