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INFLUENCER ELECTION

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MAPPING POLITICAL CREATORS ON TIKTOK

Aya Salim, CSS Lake Como School 2026

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HOW DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE PERCEIVED SOCIAL REALITY

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AI OPENNESS AT WORK

POLITICAL SELF-CENSORSHIP

TIKTOK POLITICAL INFLUENCERS�

FEED RERANKING AND SOCIAL NORMS

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FUNHOUSE MIRROR” OF SOCIAL NORMS

ROBERTSON ET AL., 2024 

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22 partisan influencer accounts (13 liberal, 9 conservative)

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May 2024 – May 2025

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Polarization scoring (LLM-assisted with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)

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