Detecting Platform Effects in Online Discussions

This work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competi-tiveness under the Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502) and the EU project D-CENT (FP7/CAPS 610349).

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