Link-Traced Amplification: How Telegram Redistributes YouTube Political Content at ScaleTelegram is a lightly moderated platform hosting, among others, fringe and politically extreme communities, many of which migrated after being deplatformed from mainstream social media.
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10.1145/3800935.3830834
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Link-Traced Amplification: How Telegram Redistributes YouTube Political Content at Scale
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830834
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Mateus Brito, Ester Souza, Thiago Braga, Giordano Paoletti, Luca Vassio, Jussara M. Almeida, Leonardo Rocha
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830834
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CC BY 4.0
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Telegram is a lightly moderated platform hosting, among others, fringe and politically extreme communities, many of which migrated after being deplatformed from mainstream social media.
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Telegram; YouTube; political discourse; cross-platform diffusion
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Social network analysis ; • Applied computing → Sociology ; • Computing methodologies~Information extraction; • Computing methodologies → Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics ; • Information systems → Social networks ; • Information systems~Data cleaning; Clustering;
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Mateus Brito, Ester Souza, Thiago Braga, Giordano Paoletti, Luca Vassio, Jussara M. Almeida, Leonardo Rocha
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Mateus Brito, Ester Souza, Thiago Braga, Giordano Paoletti, Luca Vassio, Jussara M. Almeida, and Leonardo Rocha. 2026. Link-Traced Amplification: How Telegram Redistributes YouTube Political Content at Scale. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 12 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830834